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OK, So reading this article on the sale of the original Batmobile, I read the sub-text on the image which reads
The customised 1955 Lincoln Ventura better known as the Batmobile
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Now, what is funny is the fact that Lincoln never made the Ventura. The Ventura was a Pontiac and the Lincoln that the Batmobile was made from is the Lincoln Futura...

Just though it was rather funny how a 'in the know' news website can get something so wrong...
 
Jaffa_Far said:
OK, So reading this article on the sale of the original Batmobile, I read the sub-text on the image which reads

Now, what is funny is the fact that Lincoln never made the Ventura. The Ventura was a Pontiac and the Lincoln that the Batmobile was made from is the Lincoln Futura...

Just though it was rather funny how a 'in the know' news website can get something so wrong...
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Are you really surprised? The news places get details like that wrong so often it's far from rare.
 
Inform them politely of the error (with sources), if you care to and can. Most article writers get things wrong occasionally, and appreciate a non-sneering correction.
 
Edrof said:
Inform them politely of the error (with sources), if you care to and can. Most article writers get things wrong occasionally, and appreciate a non-sneering correction.
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This man speaks sense :)

I've written a few articles (only for the Uni paper), and frankly if I got something wrong, I'd rather be corrected that have my name next to something that was wrong.

kd
 
Anyone notice that they seem to miss off the closing speech marks quite often. Or maybe that is just Andrew Benson who writes over hype stating the obvious pieces for F1.

I remember a month ago the top 10 new stories broke and it was showing the most read from a day the month before.
 
Searched for Lincoln Ventura, there is an article on this story from the Ventura County Star... weird! Must be a conspiracy.

''Holy windfall": Batmobile sells for $4.2M
Ventura County Star-9 hours ago
The car's owner - auto customizer George Barris, of Los Angeles - transformed a one-of-a-kind 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car into the sleek ...
 
Stryda09 said:
Anyone notice that they seem to miss off the closing speech marks quite often. Or maybe that is just Andrew Benson who writes over hype stating the obvious pieces for F1.
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Are you sure it's not just the speech continues on to the next paragraph, in which case you don't close the speech marks?

Once I saw an article that referred to David Cameron as the Prime Minstrel. That amused me...


(edit: although it might not have been david cameron, it was one prime minister or the other...)
 
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News gets tons of stuff wrong.
Just have to look at things that you know something about, and if they get that wrong, how much other stuff do they get wrong, which you have no knowledge in the area.
 
The BBC make a lot of spelling mistakes in their articles. I'm not really knowledgeable enough to discover factual errors, other than in the technology section, where there aren't very many. Never the less as I'm sure any fellow BBC News App user will agree (I swear I notice it more on the app even though they're the same articles), they do have their moments...
 
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