geography or grammar. Comment written by Student # 10

Photo by the Department of Science and Technology of the Philippines, ASTI, downloaded from  http://agham.asti.dost.gov.ph/1998/3rd/extras/johnt/island.jpg

(Tubbataha Reef Marine Park, Central Sulu Sea)

Accuracy. Written by Student #10. Unedited by blog admin. 

       Quote “Even in broadsheets, writers (sic) sometimes commit factual errors and if left unchecked, readers who are not so aware (sic) of what’s written would certainly believe that they were fed with the right facts. In the banner photo of the January 7 2008 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the photo caption had an obvious mistake. The caption reads (sic) : “the 7.4-meter-long whale shark probably crashed into the vessel in the SULU SEA (sic, indicate if caps supplied) or the seas between Bohol and Misamis Oriental. (sic, put closed-quotes) It’s (sic) funny yet disturbing. Any person who knows about our country’s geography will really point out that the Sulu Sea is not the body of water situated between these two provinces. It’s Bohol Sea. Sulu Sea is located near the archipelago-province of Palawan, on the western section of the country.

      Quote “Another factual error present is on (sic) the story ‘Lakas likely target of poachers’ (p. A2, January 8, 2008, Tuesday), wherein members of the ruling Lakas party will (sic) be subject to poaching of (sic)  other political parties with more viable presidential contenders according to Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano. In that story, it said (sic): “Speaker Jose de Venecia was defeated in 1988 (referring to his failed presidential bid won by the hugely popular candidate, then Vice-President Joseph Estrada). (sic, put closed-quotes) Certainly, there were no presidential elections in 1988. It should be 1998, a decade later. This is really a violation of the first provision of the journalist’s code of ethics that gives importance on (sic) the accuracy of facts, 2008/02/22 at 11:08 AM  2008/02/22. Closed-quote.