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Thread ID: 128572 2012-12-30 05:07:00 Grannie Herald is at it again..... Zippity (58) PC World Chat
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1320671 2012-12-30 05:07:00 Sea Shepherd prepared for Japan whale hunt (www.nzherald.co.nz)
3:52 PM Sunday Dec 30, 2012


Trouble is brewing again in the Southern Ocean, as Japan sets off on its annual whale hunt.

And this year it will meet even more opposition than before.

Sky News reports the conservation group Sea Shepherd has built its fleet up to four ships and says it'll stop at nothing to prevent whales being taken.

It wants intervention by the Australian Government, but Environment Minister Tony Burke says he's done all he can.

"Japan's behaviour on this must stop. We have taken every action that is possible to take. We are not about to declare war on Japan."

Sea Shepherd captain Paul Watson is out to save as many whales as possible.

"We're going to do everything that we can to prevent them from killing a single whale.

"We're not out here to hurt anybody, we're hear to just uphold international conservation law."
Zippity (58)
1320672 2012-12-30 05:21:00 Agreed.

The standard of spelling in the print media particularly is appalling. It's not a matter of being pedantic per se; we need accuracy in the printed word, but in the wider sense that those who want to can be educated in the correct usage. If Grannie for example misuses "verses" when they really mean "versus", that is never going to help those who are trying to learn.
WalOne (4202)
1320673 2012-12-30 07:23:00 Granny Herald (via APNZ) again. Today.

"...hard to reopen without support from leading whanau willing to send there kids there and they aren't"

Don't anyone tell me I'm pedantic!

:mad:
WalOne (4202)
1320674 2012-12-30 08:00:00 we need a ***** column that hopefully most print and TV "jurnos" will visit and learn of their mistakes :) Zippity (58)
1320675 2012-12-30 08:26:00 At least it wasn't hare. prefect (6291)
1320676 2012-12-30 08:28:00 At least it wasn't hare.

Or Hair
QW. (15883)
1320677 2012-12-30 08:36:00 I do wonder, do they make these kinds of errors in print too? Cato (6936)
1320678 2012-12-30 09:02:00 They even do it in joined-up writing. :( R2x1 (4628)
1320679 2012-12-30 19:28:00 Hardly the "Granny Herald" anymore. More likely the "Auckland News of the World".. We canceled our sub about 6 weeks ago it go so bad. Tabloid size then tabloid content..

Mind you if people in this NG are going thru this paper with such detail I think it's time they went outside and played.
paulw (1826)
1320680 2012-12-30 20:15:00 Hair hair hair erlair. Cicero (40)
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