<p>Has anyone read the UW Daily lately? It makes me embarrassed. I would have gotten poor marks in JR High had I submitted half of the material in there.</p>
<p>The other week one opinion author said 1/1000 was equivalent to 0.001%. I realize how much they love to bring up the fact that they’re liberal arts majors just so they don’t have to take math classes, but I wrongly assumed they had at least passed basic arithmetic.</p>
<p>A lot of those kids at the daily study full time… Your bound to find some mistakes…</p>
<p>The quality of writing at the daily has always been poor. Even though I worked on my hs paper for 3 years, I didn’t apply to work at the daily because I didn’t want to be associated with them.</p>
<p>There are basic things that are blatantly wrong with the paper though. Things that an intelligent person wouldn’t let pass muster when they were going to post on CC, let alone writing a draft for a class or for the newspaper.</p>
<p>"‘This was a terrible bill for students,’ said Andrew Lewis, director of the ASUW Office of Government Relations (OGR). ‘The GET program does not jive with differential tuition.’"</p>
<p>So, one of several things happened. First, lets be abundantly clear:</p>
<p>jive/jīv/
Noun: A lively style of dance popular esp. in the 1940s and 1950s, performed to swing music or rock and roll.</p>
<p>Verb: Perform the jive or a similar dance to popular music.</p>
<p>Adjective: Deceitful or worthless.</p>
<p>jibe
Verb: Change course by swinging a fore-and-aft sail across a following wind.
Be in accord; agree.</p>
<p>Noun: An act or instance of jibing.</p>
<p>Mr. Lewis could have said “jive” in which case the quote should have had [sic] in it, to indicate to the reader (1) that jive is definitely not the word to use in such a sentence, (2) that the author of the story has at least an 8th grade education and wouldn’t let someone use a word with no place in the sentence, (3) that there is indeed an editor who reads these stories.</p>
<p>But chances are that Mr. Lewis did use the word Jibe and that he was simply misquoted by the author. In which case there is no excuse for the editor having missed it. It’s silly wrong, prima facie, and the fact that things like this make it into our paper every single day is non compos mentis.</p>
<p>I read the UW Daily on daily basis. There are some mistakes, but there are not too many to deter me from reading it. They write some interesting articles. Let’s be understandable of the fact that many Daily writers are busy students like us. Personally, although there are some mistakes, I enjoy reading the Daily and I am sure many others do as well.</p>
<p>I enjoy scanning through The Daily for headlines, but to be honest, I rarely read through the articles unless they pertain specifically to topics or issues that I am involved or interested in. It brings to light some things that are going on around campus that I otherwise would have no idea about as well.</p>
<p>True, maybe they could proofread one more time. Easy spelling mistakes, grammar, etc. Sometimes I find that their facts are incorrect or the pictures they take don’t correspond to what was actually happening. </p>
<p>But are they the Seattle Times? No. They are a school newspaper, with articles written by students who are most likely also taking a full load of classes. If you have the time and can do better getting the diverse topics, interviewing, taking pictures, then writing articles, editing, and publishing by midnight every day, by all means go ahead and do so.</p>
<p>That’s funny you say that. After reading a libelous and baseless article in the Daily that upset me, I read the Seattle Times where they had an article on “Representative” Roy Blunt’s amendment being voted on in the Senate. He is, of course, the Junior Senator from Missouri.</p>
<p>Well, even Seattle Times sometimes has lots of mistakes - if you go into the “comments” section of some articles, you will see people wondering whether an editor even exists in the Times…</p>
<p>this must have been your first time reading the daily, it’s always been like that</p>
<p>There are some people in one of my classes who bring in red inked edited pages of the daily with $$ bets on how many errors they find. Blows my mind.</p>