Peddling a pedal

[lemmy]

Unbelievably, this is from today's Telegraph. It's by their science correspondent Richard Alleyne.

For a journalist not to know the difference between peddle and pedal is hard to understand. For the subs to miss it is - well what are they for then?

I see a cyclist on an exercise bike in the gym. He is desperately trying to sell his fellow exercisers some cheap jewellery. They are telling him where to put his trashy wares. He is becoming more and more angry. His heart rate is rising fast.

According to Mcmaster University, this is better for improving his fitness than endurance training. I think he should dump the baubles and just pedal harder.

 

[flecc]

It no longer surprises me lemmy, today's journalistic standards are dismal.

I expect any tradesman to know how to use his tools, and the journalist's basic tools are the vocabulary, spelling and grammar of the language. Any who fail in those respects are unskilled, regardless of how good their advanced tools of descriptive power, construction and concision are.

Four of my first five years of school was in a village school with two untrained wartime teachers, one year in another, tiny, one roomed village school, eight pupils from 5 to 14 years old with a temporary teacher, Then I had four years of what might now be recognised as real school before being thrown out at 14 years old.

That I can recognise all the defects of today's journalism after such a poor education is truly an indictment of the standards.
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[Barnowl]

Quality

 

[themutiny]

Perhaps it was a Freudian slip?

One dictionary definition of peddling is:

to sell (drugs) illicitly.