24 hours Vancouverrors - September 2012

I detected a few errors in the pages of daily newspaper 24 hours Vancouver during September 2012. First, on September 5, there was a missing hyphen in what should have been son's abduction. Would you believe that was the article's headline? Whether you would or wouldn't, it was. Then,

on September 13 there was a misspelled name in "Surrey breaks ground on new pools". The Surrey mayor is Dianne Watts.Then,

on September 18 there was another headline gaffe. Player express does not agree. It's gotta be either players express or player expresses. In this case, the article's content showed that players express would have been the correct one. Then,

also on September 18, an leopard-print should have been a leopard-print. From "‘Inappropriate’ new line brings trouble for Hurley". Last but not least,

on September 21 there was a misspelling of The Big Lebowski in the photo caption of "Film fanatics go retro". Click an image to enlarge it.

bloodshed began in Rexdale around 6:30 p.m.; an 17-year-old man; A 18-year-old boy; first shooting of the night occurred around 4:45 p.m

-- "Bloody Tuesday in T.O." on Vancouver 24 hours online on August 5, 2009

The article's second sentence begins by stating that the bloodshed began around 6:30 p.m. Remember that. Meanwhile, "an 17-year-old" should be "a 17-year-old" and "a 18-year-old" should be "an 18-year-old" - seventeen does not begin with a vowel sound, while eighteen does. "Downtown" should not be capitalized. In what journalistic guidebook is a 17-year-old a man while an 18-year-old is a boy? Maybe it depends on whether the individual is a victim or a suspect. Remember how the bloodshed apparently began around 6:30 p.m.? Well, the article's penultimate sentence states that the first shooting occurred around 4:45 p.m. My favorite part of this article is that it has two writers' names attached. "I wrote the parts that don't have any errors." "My share of the writing is the share that's error-free."