MANCHESTER, KY — ClayCoNews is reporting that: Today a reader has made them aware of a grammar violation apparently serious enough for the reader to compose an email and report it to the publication.
ClayCoNews is an online publication which for the most part is available and read worldwide (we have some countries blocked). All our content is either an official press release, Op-Ed etc.. submitted via email or by some other form such as a text, snail mail, phone etc..
Most our content doesn't need proofreading but as a general rule it usually gets a quick scan to see if anything jumps out at you before the final publishing. However, I'm sure with all the thousands of articles we've published in soon to be over two decades there's been several misspelled words that got past whomever was working on the article.
I remember the story that ClayCoNews got called out on this morning because I was the one to publish it.
However, I'm not making any excuses here but, being a father, a stepfather, a grandfather, a great grandfather, uncle, great uncle, cousin-1st, 2nd etc.. of a large wonderful group presently spanning from a combat veteran, 2 RNs, a senior at MSU, kids in high school, middle school, grade school, head start, toddlers, and even in the womb and the list goes on. Sadly, there's several others that have passed on due to sickness or tragedy including a fantastic son and a stepdaughter.
The article that compelled the reader to write and send an email pointing out a single misspelled word was a tragic story about an incident where a young person with a full life ahead of them had recently been in a motor vehicle crash and only lived two days before dying.
After reading it once, proofreading it again was the last thing on my mind. Checking this morning, I spotted another mistake and there may be others, I left them untouched.
This particular piece didn't give the victim's name or age because it was a KSP article and they almost never release the names of a juvenile and that was the word that the Kentucky State Police PR person had mistakenly spelled as "juvenal". ——Probably same as me, just didn't care to read it again and especially so, since they had the child's name, age and sex in what was, no doubt, a more detailed and graphic report in front of them.
People working in these situations, from the 911 Dispatchers and First responders whether Police, EMS, Firefighters, Pilots to the Doctors, Nurses, other Medical staff and Media are Professionals and strive to always display that but, the human element is always there.
Below is the KSP news release and the reader's email is used as the intro image.
"God bless the responding agencies and God bless the family of that child who left them to soon."
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Tammy, thanks for bringing this to our attention and thanks for reading ClayCoNews!
I did ask AI: Is this correct? "But just wanted to let you know it needed proofread."
AI Overview: The sentence "But just wanted to let you know it needed proofread" is not entirely correct; it should be "But just wanted to let you know it needs to be proofread."
