Has journalism really sunk to these low depths?

[BacchusMarsh]

If doing what ever you like is acceptable, I may as well start a new convention that every sentence begins with a question mark!

That would be about as sensible as your previous suggestion, or your insistence that "loose" is somehow an acceptable spelling of "lose".

You might want to do some research:

"There is also an emerging view that arguement is a legitimate alternative in British English, similar to the case of judgement and judgment, where both spellings are acceptable"

 

[Dr Ralph]

That would be about as sensible as your previous suggestion, or your insistence that "loose" is somehow an acceptable spelling of "lose".

?Thanks for your feedback. ?I realise a lot of people find progress difficult, but I am happy to continue to encourage you to do some research if you like:

http://spellingtrouble.blogspot.com.au/2013_01_01_archive.html

 

[ButFli]

I perhaps need to read less!

You should have noted that this isn't a chapter, it is a newspaper article. And this is the least of the articles functionality problems.

In any case that doesn't make it correct or acceptable. As the author of several books I can tell you no publisher has requested I use such a style. If doing what ever you like is acceptable, I may as well start a new convention that every sentence begins with a question mark!

A trip to news.com.au reveals it is their preferred style to capitalise the first word of an article. Where the first word is less than three letters, they also capitalise the second word. Granted, there are a couple of articles there now that don't apply that style, but those are the exception.

The print versions of the major News Ltd and Fairfax papers in Australia follow the same style convention.