Gordaen’s Blog

When I saw the “Zoo fears as polar bear eats cubs” headline, I was intrigued. I haven’t been reading the news much lately, because it always seems to be filled with politicians doing the opposite of what they are saying. Thinking this would be an interesting change, I read through the article only to be disappointed.

“It’s gaining weight, it’s very hungry, it drinks a lot of milk,” said Alexandra Foghammar, a spokeswoman for the city. The zoo announced Thursday that the cub is female.

First off, any decent writer should know that you can’t just keep adding sentences together with commas (”comma splicing”); semi-colons would have been appropriate. Of course, writers are people and make mistakes, so the editor should have caught that one. I was reading it casually early in the morning and saw the mistake, so I would hope someone whose job is to catch that sort of thing would notice it too. Unfortunately, the article does not seem to list the writer or editor. It might even be an AP story, but the site doesn’t say. Oh well, I shouldn’t expect quality from the media anyway.