Perhaps due to poor English writing or editing skills, some major news media outlets have lately been committing embarrassing information gaffes and grammar and usage misuses.

Take this awfully wrong Taglish flash headline broadcast by a TV news channel on June 13: “State of Emergency sa Orange Country sa Florida, Idineklara.” As far as I know, that flash headline about that heinous massacre of 49 LGBTs kept on running uncorrected for most of the day. None among that TV channel’s news bureau seems to have noticed the grave error or, if someone did, either thought it was trivial or was too lazy to correct it.

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