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Is this the worst news report ever written? - D B Campbell - 04-28-2013
Factual inaccuracy, bad grammar, spelling mistakes, it's got 'em all.
Well, it is the Daily Mail, I suppose: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2315871/.
Is this the worst news report ever written? - Flavivs Aetivs - 04-28-2013
Well I know something new; the Romans tried to hold a point further than the Antonine wall. Cool.
Is this the worst news report ever written? - Vindex - 04-28-2013
Nice pictures of Hadrian's Wall though.
One assumes they were pushed for time or their spell checker wasn't working. AS for grammar, is it still taught by anyone other than Latin and Greek tutors???
Is this the worst news report ever written? - Caballo - 04-29-2013
Sadly not ...
The moral is , avoid the Daily Mail!
Is this the worst news report ever written? - PhilusEstilius - 04-29-2013
Apart from all else it is interesting how this frontier shuts off the highlands very much like the other frontier lower down that actually crosses Hadrian's Wall, known as the 255 line of the late Raymond Selkirk that closed off the Eden valley at nearly the same type of angle across the country.
Is this the worst news report ever written? - Renatus - 04-29-2013
Quote:Factual inaccuracy, bad grammar, spelling mistakes, it's got 'em all.So, the Grauniad has a rival!
Well, it is the Daily Mail, I suppose: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2315871/.
Is this the worst news report ever written? - Dan Howard - 04-29-2013
The Daily Mail isn't a newspaper. It's a gossip rag aimed at the semi-literate.
Is this the worst news report ever written? - Dan Howard - 04-29-2013
Quote:Apart from all else it is interesting how this frontier shuts off the highlands very much like the other frontier lower down that actually crosses Hadrian's Wall, known as the 255 line of the late Raymond Selkirk that closed off the Eden valley at nearly the same type of angle across the country.
Every lecturer I ever had reckoned that the primary purpose of Hadrian's Wall and other similar limes was not defence - it was to control access so that the Romans could collect taxes and duties. Defence was a consideration but not the main one.
Is this the worst news report ever written? - Q Rutilius - 04-29-2013
Is there anything new in that report? Didn't we already know that there was a chain of forts north of the Antonine Wall? Or this another case of the archaeologists juicing things up to get more research money?
Is this the worst news report ever written? - Dan D'Silva - 04-29-2013
Quote:... late fist century AD defence system...It couldn't have lasted long, though. The Western empire dissolved during the kicking-and-headbutting century.
Is this the worst news report ever written? - PhilusEstilius - 04-29-2013
Dan.
I don't dispute that Hadrian's Wall may well have been to control local traffic through the Tyne Valley area but it was also of a defensive nature ie many regiments of soldiers stationed on it.
Then the other frontiers delt with here in this post were indeed of a defensive nature hence the reason why Hadrian had to come along later to build his stone wall and put a tremendous garrison on it instead of just having forts along a road system, and I don't think it takes a degree in archaeology for anyone to be able to determine that.
Is this the worst news report ever written? - Kegluneq - 04-29-2013
The Daily Mail/Fail/Heil article just seems to be treating the Gask Ridge defensive line as being something new and revolutionary in archaeology, whereas in reality the presence of glen-blocking forts in Scotland has been known about for sometime. The last annual report from TRGP was from 2010 apparently, and I think the Mail article was taken pretty much directly from that? Overall I think the only major problem is directly comparing land and access denial to a monumental structure.
Woolliscroft and Hoffmann are pretty well known Wall scholars, so I doubt the fault for serious factual errors lies with them.
(Edit: Yay, I can post again!)
Is this the worst news report ever written? - PhilusEstilius - 04-30-2013
I think that the statement in the link about the Gask Ridge frontier is a bit bold where it suggests that this frontier is the first land frontier anywhere, for it has been thought that Agricola may well have created the Stanegate that goes coast to coast across the country.
Is this the worst news report ever written? - C Crastinus - 05-01-2013
Oh, to be so sheltered from the American media that one could think this the worst news report ever. It must be nice to trill one's R's in the Highlands, safe and secure from the vile putrescence, an ocean away, that dares call itself journalism. How I envy you.
Is this the worst news report ever written? - D B Campbell - 05-01-2013
Quote:It must be nice to trill one's R's in the Highlands, ...Shhhhh -- what we do with our Rs in the Highlands stays in the Highlands. :whistle: