I think it's a different kind of error: The Grauniad tended to end up with typos in the traditional sense — errors in the setting of type for the newspaper. The fact that when they went to digital setting there were still a few errors was the source of much mirth, but there was a genuine improvement. With news.bbc.co.uk, I guess they just employ people whose English usage is a bit iffy, and don't have anyone more competent check articles before they go live. Also, it's fairly plain that many of their articles come from Macintoshes via someone who doesn't understand how the path from Mac to web can mangle quote marks.
With unicode support now very widespread in browsers it's unclear that there's any excuse but incompetence for mangling quotes when converting to HTML...
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