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No, but a style guide at a company where I did work explained how organisations were singular by pointing that "Crystal Palace is a rubbish team from London" and not "Crystal Palace are ..." I can't imagine how that got in there.

That's not really the media company's problem though is it? Their aim is to make publications as readable as possible, not to promote other brands. The only justification for adhering to brand names would be if the brands spent huge amounts of money on advertising. This did happen at one place I...

I don't think many publishing houses would agree with you. NASA is a pretty short word but what happens if a company calls itself WONDER-WIDGETS and is involved in a takeover battle with its bitter rival MARVELLOUS METALLIC, not only would any copy look like alphabet soup but print titles would...

Yep. that's always been the case in every organisation I've worked for - if the acronym is pronounced, then it's lower case.

I didn't see the original and thought that the "it's" was your correction. Many apologies

It's "Whatever its shortcomings ..." D- Must try harder :lolol:

Drives me mad too but, again, that's due to cost-cutting within publishing houses too. There's been a reduction in staff so the journalists have less time to pursue a story but, to make things worse, they've also cut senior journalists (as they cost too much) and replace them with kids, who are...

As I explained earlier, that is complete bollocks. There's no difference in quality of copy being produced, the increase in the number of errors is entirely down to other factors.

Newspapers have radically cut their subs desks - they were the people who used to spot errors like these. And as for websites... there seems to be a curious belief among senior managers that, somehow, if you're writing for the web, there's no need to have any subs. The rationale for this is that...