What hope is there when even copying is too difficult?

30.08.2018 10:35 UTC+02:00
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I realise that BBC journalism seems to have degraded to trawling social media, but it's even sadder that their journalists cannot copy/paste the Twitterati properly. Despite using double quotes, which I take to be a verbatim quotation, they managed to introduce three changes to the following message: ellipsis (…) changed to comma; ampersand (&) changed to and; and the complete dropping of will.

screenshot of tweet and its misquotation by BBC journalist — Copy/paste, BBC style.

There is no hope. (SMH)