D’oh! Who edits this stuff, anyway?
Found this last night via a link from Fark. It’s a screen snapshot of a story posted Thursday at the International Herald Tribune web site.
Doh!

Found this last night via a link from Fark. It’s a screen snapshot of a story posted Thursday at the International Herald Tribune web site.
Doh!

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Charles Apple is a free-lance visual journalist and instructor. A long time news artist and designer, he is the former graphics director of the Virginian-Pilot and the Des Moines Register. He teaches design and graphics workshops and seminars and spends way too much time online.
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May 9th, 2008 at 9:34 am
I saw this too. I will say, though, good call on the AP’s part of putting a big disclaimer in the headline field of something that was clearly going into an automated system.
Maybe something to think about next time you’re typing “Xxxyy Xxyyx Yxx.”