God, I'm going to miss newspapers

[sigma7]

My favorite corrections du jour from Regret the Error:

NYT: An earlier version of this article misstated the number of girls younger than 18 who were allegedly invited to a villa by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy. Mr. Berlusconi is alleged to have invited about 40 women to the villa, but only some of them were allegedly younger than 18 at the time, not all of them.

Winston-Salem Journal: An op-ed column yesterday incorrectly referred to Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s family as “an immigrant Puerto Rican family.” Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States, and its native-born residents are U.S. citizens.

NPR: We incorrectly referred to a gay rights group as “Equity Illinois.” It is actually called “Equality Illinois.” (Yes, not a newspaper, I realize. Still, it amuses me.)

LAT: Internet reviews: In Meghan Daum’s column Wednesday about Internet customer reviews, the average rate of sales of Three Wolf Moon T-Shirts was incorrect. The shirts are selling at about 100 an hour, not 100 a minute.

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[erica-roo.livejournal.com]

I was listening to NPR at work last week and they were taking international phone calls about cell phone technology. A "German" man called in to discuss how it has helped his business. He ended his call by saying that the vibrating feature nicely stimulates his prostate when stuck up his schizerhole.

On NPR.

The host was left utterly speechless.

I nearly died trying to stifle my laughter.

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[samson-of-5.livejournal.com]

And here I had thoughts about that feature being a benefit for womenfolk. Guess my dirty mind ain't so dirty.

[patchsassy.livejournal.com]

We went through our paper yesterday and not only was disaster misspelled in a headline (on an inside page, but still), but someone in the lead photo was referred to as "Abcde Smith."

I wish I was kidding.

Me and my boss are hoping that the editor takes a look at the crap our "assistant/interim editor" has been putting out since the editor left and decides to hire someone who can do the job right.

Because this is embarrassing.

And they want me to WORK for the news desk this summer. Right. A-I don't want to make anyone cry when I completely upstage them all. I could write better than three of them with my hand tied behind my back. and B-I don't exactly want to be associated with that product. And frankly, I could probably make more money waitressing.

[motteditor.livejournal.com]

Well, considering most of the people in Equity (actors and theater folks), it's probably all but a gay rights group. : )