Guest 782- Registered: 4 Oct 2012
- Posts: 357
#1
Page 3, Jack Woolford dies, with a big picture of John Turnpenny! They could have checked this out!!!!!
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#2
Incompetence rather than disrespect?
Audere est facere.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
Phil Hayes has been in contact with me and is devastated by the error. He has spoken to Mr woolford's daughter who was very understanding and accepted that a correction and full apology will be in next week's edition.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#4
Appalling lapse, but not the first time. That's what comes of not having an office in the town you claim to represent. I expect at least a four-figure sum to be donated by DE to the Dover Society as a gesture of penitence.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#5
I suspect that the error was mostly caused by only having 3 working days between editions instead the usual 5, many short cuts would have to be made to get the paper out on time, the usual checks and balances being lost.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#6
Howard that is no defense there is no excuse, it is not as if the two surnames were at all similar.
The Dover Express all to often makes simple mistakes, either they do not proof read anymore or their reporters need to go back to school to improve their spelling and grammar.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#7
Or both.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 1348- Registered: 20 Sep 2014
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#8
Had instance where they couldn't even take info from an email and print correctly for a death, even after a phone conversation confirming everything. Shameful getting photo wrong that is a big fail on their part.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#9
I think we need to remember that we are talking about a very young team starting out and making mistakes like we all did.
If they were seasoned journalists with 20 years experience behind them then that would be different, the spelling and grammar on their Facebook page is amended before the newspaper is printed.
Guest 1103- Registered: 3 Nov 2013
- Posts: 759
#10
after all we are humans and as it is pointed out the family was understanding and thats where we should really leave it.
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Maya Angelou ☺🌈🌄🌌🌏🌍🌎
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#11
Time to stop making excuses for them Howard, surely they are not all a bunch of youngsters fresh out of school having failed their English exams.
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