Job opening, as of this morning: copy editor at the New York Times
Headline from this morning's print and online New York Times:
Earlier version, as saved by Google News:
Well, it could've been worse.
Update: Romenesko's brief history of news bloopers.
Comments
Yes... and one blog I read noted that in one obituary of that Walton heir who died in a plane crash, he was described as "down to earth."
Posted by: Eric Berlin | July 27, 2005 9:59 AM
Kind of tough to top Jonathan Klein's "CNN is flooding the zone on tsunami coverage" thing, but that's a good one.
Posted by: Jim Treacher | July 27, 2005 1:38 PM
On Dec. 31, 2004, AP carried the headline: "Buenos Aires disco inferno kills 88."
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking-News/Buenos-Aires-disco-inferno-kills-88/2004/12/31/1104344978394.html
Posted by: SD | July 29, 2005 5:53 AM
I am an idiot - I don't get it. What's the inadvertantly offensive part?
Posted by: parcel pete | August 1, 2005 4:07 PM
I'm shocked, shocked, that you can't see what's offensive about using that metaphor in a story about electrocution. Or did you mean that maybe it wasn't inadvertent?
Posted by: radosh | August 2, 2005 9:22 AM