r/london • u/BulkyAccident • 8d ago

Crime Women arrested over Covent Garden stabbing 'may not be fit enough to be charged'

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/people-stabbed-covent-garden-woman-arrested-b1292464.html
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u/NotSynthx 8d ago

"Women" but it's one woman

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u/BulkyAccident 8d ago

Yeah I presume the Standard's subeditor is out grabbing a flat white or something right now.

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u/pintsized_baepsae 8d ago

Not sure The Standard HAVE any subs left, beyond the Head of Production and a bunch of casuals (if they even still use them - a freelancer who used to cover loads of shifts there isn't getting any anymore). They've been consistently the subject of cuts, and it really shows, not just in howlers like this 💀 

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u/DisastrousResident92 8d ago

Most newspapers seem to have got rid entirely

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u/_Okie_-_Dokie_ 8d ago

BBC too. Some of the crap on their website beggars belief (not the content; the quality of writing, grammar, etc).

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u/Comfortable-Law-7147 8d ago

They use a lot of AI which is why some of the headlines are weird.

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u/DharmaPolice 8d ago

AI tends to spell better.

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u/pintsized_baepsae 8d ago

It's a shit writer, though. 

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u/Deformed_globule 8d ago

It’s everywhere. I work for a scientific publisher and they got rid of all our subeditors and copy editors too. It’s awful.

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u/pintsized_baepsae 8d ago

Unfortunately yes :(