Sloppy journos

A Daily Telegraph headline, "Giacometti sculpture sells for a record $73 million" grabbed my attention, I love Giaometti's stuff. But what I didn't quite grasp was the newspaper's claim of $73 million being a "world record for an art auction" when the previous record stood at $117.58 million. The maths just didn't stack up. So I went to The Australian and voila, the same article with the same claim. Now, what are the chances of two papers running exactly the same copy. On scrutiny I realized the article was a feed from AAP. Ah, that explains it: lazy journalism. Somebody along the chain of feed made a mistake in the currency conversion and nobody bothered enough to spot the mistake. Not even the editor. 

I say, $73 million is whole lot more than $117.58 million.

Hey, I'd say the same too.

The 65 million sterling pounds answer 

@#$% the mistake; look at moiye, look at moiye . . .