What?! coming soon to a paper near you, a Dyslexic Editor...

TangoSixteen

TangoSixteen

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Things have spiralled out of control now!!

I was reading up on this "clarification" of the nonsense discrimination laws, and lo and behold, they are even more nonsensical now.

Link:-

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Bu...mes-Into-Effect/Article/201009415748929?f=rss


She said the Act would also make it easier for dyslexic staff to make claims if they are barred from certain tasks because they tend to make spelling and grammatical mistakes.
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So a dyslexic can sue if they are not given tasks involving spelling and grammar?!

Come on now, whats next? A midget suing a basketball team for discrimination because he's not 7ft tall ?

Gah, these pieces of legislation are just insane.
 
A dyslexic news editor? It'll barely make any difference to most online articles and newspapers anyway! Have all people involved in the news completely lost the ability to write in paragraphs longer than a sentence nowadays?
 
What do you care? Your English is rubbish anyway. In fact, you probably fall in to the target audience of the likes of the Daily Mail and The Sun.
 
Editors do more about what content should or shouldn't be included then proof reading anyway. Being dyslexic shouldn't affect the ability of someone to be a newspaper editor.
 
A.N.Other said:
A dyslexic news editor? It'll barely make any difference to most online articles and newspapers anyway! Have all people involved in the news completely lost the ability to write in paragraphs longer than a sentence nowadays?
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I hate bad English (when it's clearly down to laziness or ignorance) but I hate it even more when it's from people who are being paid to write. :mad:
 
You don't just walk into an editors job without proving yourself by experience first. Same with being a basketball player. The fact is, they wouldn't get that far anyway, it just means they can't use it against you if in your current role you wish to do something that you otherwise be rubbish at, like logging official incidents in the workplace etc. It doesn't really affect anyone, as most people know their strengths and weaknesses and will work to them. It's just for those people who watch those daytime TV no win no fee ads and decide they want to make a fuss over nothing for some quick £££.
 
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