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fitzvo

Tiki Lounger

Joined: 03 Aug 2004

Posts: 7

Location: Monterey County Herald

Posted:
Sat Aug 21, 2004 10:42 am

Hey all, I've been trolling this place for a few weeks now. Fantastic stuff. Now, on to the reason I'm here.

Browsing Newseum this morning past the pdf of the Merc, my newspaper favorita, I saw this:
(edit: link removed)
And my jaw metaphorically dropped. The dead giveaway was the triple-exclamation mark. I'm also assuming it was a joke and was removed before the final print, but, oh man, how did the electronic version not get fixed?

Since I'm a newbie in this business, a similar thing happened at my college newspaper when I was there. I had been joking around with the lead, saying "a buttload of new MU crap is coming this way," but we were able to get it fixed just before sending it off to the printers. Egad.

I was wondering what some of your big-time, 120-point banner headline, all-caps errors have been. Great for cocktail conversations!

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RyanMarx

Secret Agent

Joined: 02 Aug 2004

Posts: 94

Location: The Times of Northwest Indiana

Posted:
Sat Aug 21, 2004 11:00 am

It's gone from newseum. What happened?

fitzvo

Tiki Lounger

Joined: 03 Aug 2004

Posts: 7

Location: Monterey County Herald

Posted:
Sat Aug 21, 2004 11:09 am

Can I say anything else without drawing the ire of the Merc?

I really, really respect them.

newsdesigner

Newsdesigner

Joined: 10 Mar 2004

Posts: 157

Location: The Oregonian

Posted:
Sat Aug 21, 2004 11:28 am

The curious may go here.
_________________
Mark Friesen
NewsDesigner.com

alex brown

VizEds Moderator

Joined: 14 Mar 2004

Posts: 329

Location: Los Angeles Times

Posted:
Sat Aug 21, 2004 11:41 am

god bless you, newsdesigner, whoever you are!

ashiver

Action Figure

Joined: 04 Aug 2004

Posts: 26

Location: Orlando, Florida

Posted:
Sat Aug 21, 2004 11:51 am

newsdesigner wrote::

The curious may go here.

whoa! would love to hear the story behind that one.

Linda Shapley

Contributing editor

Joined: 10 May 2004

Posts: 137

Location: Denver, Colo.

Posted:
Sat Aug 21, 2004 12:16 pm

My favorite gaffe happened to someone else when I was interning at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The 1-column mug style at the time was to have their name and a bit of description afterward. In someone's save-get function they had "Jimmy Johnson: Is a big jerk."

Yup. It found its way into print. A very stern memo was sent to all to remove any offending material out of coding. I always have a misspelling in my dummy type to ensure that if it gets past me, anyone doing a spellcheck would catch it. That's assuming they're DOING a spellcheck, obviously.

chris rukan

VizEds Moderator

Joined: 26 Mar 2004

Posts: 196

Location: The Palm Beach Post

Posted:
Sat Aug 21, 2004 12:32 pm

Afew years ago (can't remember the paper) had a reverse bar promo that read:

"INSIDE: Not a damn thing is inside"

And, this isn't an error per se -- a headline for bring your daughter to work day:

"Day gives daughters 1st-hand job experience"

alex brown

VizEds Moderator

Joined: 14 Mar 2004

Posts: 329

Location: Los Angeles Times

Posted:
Sat Aug 21, 2004 12:37 pm

yikes!

i've posted this before, but a kicker on an A1 tease to a review of "Boogie Nights" read:

Fabulous Flicks

only it was small caps and kerned too tight.

wait for it...

amanda reiter

Visual Guru

Joined: 21 Jun 2004

Posts: 72

Location: Ventura County Star

Posted:
Sat Aug 21, 2004 1:59 pm

I think that one I will always be embarrassed about... at the last newspaper I worked for, we would always place the online bug on the front page, or at the top of a column as another entry point, and I typed in www.whitehouse.com instead of www.whitehouse.gov Embarassed

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