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The Mesa Press

The Mesa Press

Chelsea Dovidio

Last week I read the Mesa Press for the first time since attending classes here. I was surprised by the number of obvious errors found in headlines, leads and throughout entire articles. Knowing that this is a student newspaper, I do not think anyone expects it to be perfect. In hopes that I might have just come across a bad issue, I reviewed this week’s (Oct. 26) and noticed even worse errors:

Headline: Row at Southwester College over Sun Press reaches final stages <-- missing the 'n' on Southwestern In the body of the same article, Southwestern College is misspelled again: "The Soutwestern Sun" <-- missing the 'h' in Southwestern A photo credit on the top story: Joan Miller hold a tiger cub while working at the San Diego Wild Animal Park in 1982. In the body of the article "November general election..." : Proposition 25: As of now, there needs to a two-thirds majority vote to pass legislation in California. <-- "there needs to be a two-thirds..." A GFE: but fashion professor Rachel Libolt and Carol Rohe, manager of the bookstore... <-- Fashion Professor Rachael Libolt; her first name has a second 'a' in it. In addition to these mistakes, there are multiple punctuation errors: missing periods, commas, using "it's" in lieu of the correct possessive "its" etc. As a journalism major in Ms. Braun's class, I would like to see better editing in the Mesa Press as these are basic rules of writing and we should hold the paper's writers at a higher level than the average student and I would be more encouraged to read the paper.

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