So Mei Xiang might be pregnant again which if you live in the DC area you probably already know because this town LOVES it's pandas. So this means that once again DC will go into possible panda mode (a precursor to the frightening new born panda mode) but really all that doesn't matter because I've got something else to complain about that happens way too often:
There is a pretty big editing mistake in this article. Go ahead and read it and the come back... you back? Good, now tell me who "Gibbons" is. You'll see that four times "Gibbons said" something, but at no point did they bother to explain WHO Gibbons is. I'll go ahead and assume they're talking about the zoo's spokesman John Gibbons, but come on you might want to mention his full name at some point! Editors seem to love to cut content but they don't bother to check to see if they're removing the first instance of a name? Just my beef because this happen really often... we'll see how long it takes to fix.
Update: It was finally fixed for the "print" version.
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Ugh... that's so annoying. Gibbons could be anyone from a bystander to an expert to the zookeeper.
I'm not an editor, nor am I any elite writer, but that's kind of... it really makes me wonder who they're talking about.
Thanks for pointing out that stupid mistake.
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