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In my MyCan’tGetNoSatisfactionSpace.com entry, I linked to a news story from a CBS affiliate in Texas. At the very end of the article was this…

In the interest of timeliness, this story is fed directly from the Associated Press newswire and may contain occasional typographical errors.

So THAT’S why the news on Yahoo sometimes looks like it’s written by a buncha yahoos. The Associated Press are apparently the guilty yahoos! Allowing for typographical errors in the interest of timeliness? Man, if I adopted that dogma can you imagine what my blog entries would look like?

Heck, if CNN, FoxNews or any of the evening news programs adopted that dogma can you imagine what that would sound like?

“We wnat to bring this reaking nwers story out of Atlana…..”

Wow. Although, I admit I did discover a typo in a previous blog entry which I’ve since fixed (and I’m sure there’s others out there that I’ve missed). But if I worried more about timeliness instead of quality, not only would there be typos up the wazoo, it probably wouldn’t make a hell of a lot of sense. Although I can pull together my thoughts pretty well in the written word, it takes me awhile to do it. I revise, reword and reorganize a lot of what I write. Which is why instead I take this writer’s code to heart: The first draft is always *$#&!%!

And there are no finer examples of that then my first drafts. Khee!

But seriously, I sincerely hope that the AP has atleast one proof read of material before putting stuff out on the wire and isn’t just sending this stuff out willy-nilly. I hate to think that our news media (which I have rather jaded opinion of to begin with) is sacrificing quality writing and professional presentation in the interest of “timeliness.”