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From a reader: I don’t often go to the Herald, but their journalistic standards seem even worse than those of Stuff – which I doubted was possible.
This one article has so many basic errors. Did the constable’s head really “stumble several feet” and if so, how did it manage to get back and reconnect with his body?
They get the possessive apostrophe correct when referring to “the optometrist’s bill”, but not “the cops glasses”.
Referring to Wellington as the capital does not mean the word capital should be capitalised, and there should be two hyphens, between then and old in 20-year old, ie “the then-20-year-old”.
The start of quoted speech should be capitalised, and there should be a hyphen after “haymaker” when calling it a “haymaker-style punch”. Unless they thought the haymaker punch was stylish… hard to tell.
