diburning

Nice stock photo from a long time ago.

diburning

Editors? Please?

84fiero

We may have solved the question as to whether FT has a editor for their front page "articles"...yes, however they don't appear to check to see if the writer responded to their notes. Here, what appears to be a note asking to identify the unnamed consumer protection agency (note the "Which?" in numerous spots), for example:

(emphasis added)

Edit: Correction, the error appears to have been in not italicizing and in some cases not properly punctuating the word as the title of a magazine (thanks to DYKWIA for pointing out). Apologies for the error on my part. However note that a good proofreading and a working editor would have caught this before the article was published - especially knowing the readership would be mostly non-UK and with a publication using a common word as its title. So I take back my hypothesis that an editor exists!





Add in the minor detail of using a photo of a WN aircraft to go along with a post that's about a UK group advocating in the context of UK/EU law, aside from one sentence comparing the situation in North America. I guess Shutterstock was all out of UK or EU airline photos today.

https://www.flyertalk.com/articles/c...w-clauses.html

diburning

They could have used the one in the post above yours and would only be half incorrect

84fiero

That's true!! ^

DYKWIA

Which? is the name of the UK Consumer Magazine.

https://www.which.co.uk
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oliver2002

Ladies and Gentlemen, dear Kids,
FT takes reports of faulty/shoddily written news items rather serious and depends on your feedback. FT news is not part of of the FTG website, but a separate entity. I have therefore split off the comments on FT News from the FTG thread in EM&PR and creted a new thread, which I will move into the feedback forum. Please continue the reports there, or PM @IBMeg directly if you see an error in the news articles.

Regards Oliver2002
Mod EM&PR forum

84fiero

In which case, the title of the magazine should have been italicized in the article (non-italicized in the opening paragraph which is itself italicized already). One reason for that is to avoid the very confusion that I experienced. He also neglected to use a closing comma after the first instance of the name and missed the chance to properly punctuate the name later. All of which make it appear to the casual reader to be a random note left in the article - especially to those outside the circulation area of a publication (and one with a common word as its title!!).

Just more sloppiness that a proper proofreading and editing would have caught. And not an isolated incident. If IB is trying to create professional articles here, they have some work to do IMHO. I guess if they just want some filler, then disregard!

diburning

They should really depend on an editor instead, but sure, I'll send IBMeg a PM the next time I see something that needs to be fixed.

To be fair, the issues posted here are fixed relatively quickly after they're pointed out.

IBMeg

Thanks for the feedback!

I have italicized the name of the publication and added a link in the text. Always feel free to @IBMeg me if you see a problem in an article and its editor has not responded in a timely fashion.


Meg

diburning

Alright, since I sent a message to IBMeg, and it hasn't been fixed, I think it's fair at this point to post my critique publicly as I've given it enough time.

In this article: https://www.flyertalk.com/articles/w...l-in-2019.html

The title indicates that the article would answer why a US passport is less powerful in 2019. Except it doesn't. It explains the rating process, and it tells us which is the top passport, as well as the US passport's position over time. But, it doesn't answer or explain why it is less powerful in 2019 which was supposed to be the whole premise of the article as titled!

IBJoel

I think it's less powerful because it slipped down the rankings. Because it doesn't get you into as many countries visa-free as compared to the countries placed higher on the list. But I have sent Meg your comment, thank you.

horseymike

Recently i have clicked on a few news headlines on flyer talk news section on to find ... nothing. no artice just a headline and a picture . any thoughts ???

FlyinHawaiian

I will ask that the Delta Forum moderators move this to the correct forum for questions such as these, which is: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/tech...-feedback-386/

IBMeg

Hi horseymike, this is an error on the site that we're looking into. Can you tell me the headline and where (e.g. under "Recent Articles" or the "Most Read" column on the front page) and when you accessed it?

Thanks,

IBMeg