There goes my nice-guy reputation

[Mark Giardina]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23283207

I emailed Channel 10 and explained that whoever wrote the article misspelled Patton's name. I figured that it would save the station any embarrassment if someone else read it and also noticed the mistake.

What did I get for my effort? 10's website administrator rejected my original email to the TV station.

So much for trying to be helpful. :

 

[BobRoss]

Send it to the News Director instead.

 

[Mark Giardina]

Send it to the News Director instead.

Thanks for the suggestion but my granddaughter is coming over today and I rather spend time with her this weekend than doing someone's elses job at Channel 10 for them.

No offense to the News Director, but one would think that he/she would monitor what is going out on their website.

Giardina

 

[rochachawatch]

Mark,

The problem is not their spelling; the problem is your high level of expectations for Channel 10.

Signed,

I'm Too Busy Being On The News To Use Spell-Check

 

[oldschooler1]

It is still spelled incorrectly:

"...and my father-in-law was in World War II and served in Pattens Third Army," Brooks said."

Hilarious.

 

[Red1]

In the past, I've emailed the news director at Channel 13 about misspelling common words on their "crawl". I did get an answer but it was a rather vague "we try to keep on top of it but sometimes things slip through."