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They fixed it some time between my comment and yours.

Maybe I'm spoiled with our programming tools, but I would have imagined a major newspaper to have an automated style and spell checking system that runs every time one presses Save on their CMS, and this is proof they don't. I am surprised why no one at The Guardian has set this up before — it's not rocket science, but their core business.

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This is just about priorities and theirs are different to yours - firstly, we don't know that they don't have a system that catches and warns of possible errors, we only know that articles may be published without addressing them. Secondly, the fact that it was corrected post-publish suggests that errors are picked up, but timely publication is more important.

The core business is delivering news, and typos halting publication is not a trade-off they want to take, they'd rather have the subs or copy editors batch process or review all the corrections required - maybe they use Pull Requests? :D

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