These people need editors too!

[Caol Ila]

What's with the cringlingly low standards of equestrian journalism?

In Dressage-news.com: "Bella Rose was ridden by Isabell to gold at the 2014 World Equestrian Games but the Westfalen gelding went lame shortly after."

(1) She's a MARE. You had one job..... However, the first sentence of the article says she's a mare, so I'm not sure why the writer changed her gender halfway through.

(2) "Shortly thereafter" or "shortly after the competition," please.

Then this zinger of a sentence: "Weihegold OLD that shared the world No. 1 ranking with Bella Rose for several years and both competed by Isabell, retired at a ceremony at the World Cup Final in Leipzig, Germany in April."

What? Did a bot write that?

Here's the article. https://dressage-news.com/2022/07/0...orse-retires-in-emotional-ceremony-at-aachen/

 

[Quigleyandme]

It isn’t just equestrian journalism though. I spot typos and bad grammar in the online editions of broadsheet newspapers every day. Itch to get my metaphorical red pen out.

 

[Snowfilly]

It’s all journalism I’m afraid. I used to freelance for a local paper while I was doing my A levels and a few years after; I started by covering the football matches I was already watching and expanded to other football matches, some horse stuff and a few other sports. After about 5 years, they declared they no longer wanted to pay freelancers, so they lost most of us together.

They used volunteers for a while, then they went back to paying terribly low piece rates which they’re still doing but they no longer have an editor. Everything subbed is printed as is, in the print version and online. It’s borderline unreadable.