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My favorite page has disappeared from the Romenesko sidebar, but I hunted it down via the Internet Archive: Whoops!: MediaNews readers share their favorite news bloopers
Examples:
"When I was working at the Foothill Leader, a small weekly in La Crescenta, California, Laurence Powell, one of the officers accused of beating Rodney King, went to the local high school. Well he played on the golf team with me at Crescenta Valley High and I told the city editor this. He thought it was a brilliant idea to write the headline: "C.V. golf star keeps on swinging." The paper was almost sued and printed a retraction the next week. Amazingly, the city editor kept his job."
"When I worked for The Chronicle-Telegram in Elyria, OH, a woman was injured at the Lorain County Fair. We ran a headline following up the accident that said: Woman kicked by horse upgraded to stable."
"The Milwaukee NBC-TV affiliate, WTMJ-4, had sent a reporter to cover a plane mishap at Chicago's O'Hare Field. The reporter had done a reasonably good job on what turned out to be one of those 'it could have been a lot worse' stories. After chatting live and on-camera with the airport manager, the reporter then addressed the co-anchors back at the station. 'You know, Mike and Carol, I think it is important for us to remind the viewers that air travel is still the safest way to fly.'"
Examples:
"When I was working at the Foothill Leader, a small weekly in La Crescenta, California, Laurence Powell, one of the officers accused of beating Rodney King, went to the local high school. Well he played on the golf team with me at Crescenta Valley High and I told the city editor this. He thought it was a brilliant idea to write the headline: "C.V. golf star keeps on swinging." The paper was almost sued and printed a retraction the next week. Amazingly, the city editor kept his job."
"When I worked for The Chronicle-Telegram in Elyria, OH, a woman was injured at the Lorain County Fair. We ran a headline following up the accident that said: Woman kicked by horse upgraded to stable."
"The Milwaukee NBC-TV affiliate, WTMJ-4, had sent a reporter to cover a plane mishap at Chicago's O'Hare Field. The reporter had done a reasonably good job on what turned out to be one of those 'it could have been a lot worse' stories. After chatting live and on-camera with the airport manager, the reporter then addressed the co-anchors back at the station. 'You know, Mike and Carol, I think it is important for us to remind the viewers that air travel is still the safest way to fly.'"
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Another one from the same page that reminds me of Mary Renee somehow:
"A composing room error was one of the most hilarious I've ever seen. This was back when I was working at The (Bloomington, Ill.) Pantagraph about 15 or so years ago. The paper's birth announcements were zoned; the zones was typeset and pasted up and sent down to the press room throughout the evening. Well, one evening the night editor got busy and inadvertently forgot to trim off a typeset reminder to the printers that ran at the top of each zoned copy. The next day the paper fielded all kinds of calls from terrified readers wondering why the phrase KILL ALL PREVIOUS BABIES was at the top of the announcements. Ha!"
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Speaking of newspaper screw-ups: Oops. Not my fault!
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And I'll add this one of my own (http://www.livejournal.com/users/drbear/330225.html)
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