My wife is the typical casual newspaper reader but she immediately spotted something not quite right in today's ST report (10 Nov, page A3), "Men armed with parangs slash 7 youths".
I took a look at the offending sentence and, indeed, it was a blooper in an otherwise well-paced story. Here it is:
"His attackers fled only after a friend who was jogging saw the attack and started screaming for help -- but not before stabbing him in the back."
Newspapers do have layers of proof checks but "collective" eyes can still miss glaring errors until the cold light of the next day show these up.
Here's another example, from Monday's Today.
Headline: 1 in 10 Singaporeans are obese
Introduction (1st paragraph): One in 10 Singaporeans or 10.8 per cent of the population is obese...
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