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It goes on in student newsrooms all the time, but the only time I've ever seen it in real newsrooms is from recently hired students. It's much too easy a mista
by bonaldi 13y ago
It goes on in student newsrooms all the time, but the only time I've ever seen it in real newsrooms is from recently hired students.
It's much too easy a mistake to make, and in some places using "real" text is a discipline offence, so it's much more common to see "cgclcgl" or "hdyhdyhdy" or "123123" or eye-catching text like that. (Lorem Ipsum doesn't leap out at the eye enough).
I once wrote a headline about an invasion of a new breed of octopuses coming to our waters, along the lines of:
"Indian Octopus
Heading Here"
but seeing it on proofs freaked everyone out too much and it had to be changed.
- chimeracoder 13y agoIt definitely does happen in newsrooms of journals of record as well. I'm not going to call any out by name, because I know it's very common. They're just generally better about catching it.
- msrpotus 13y agoCheck out the correction here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/nyregion/the-once-and-future-gowanus.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/nyregion/the-once-and-futu... Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated the name of a website that reported on the God’s Only Demons Motorcycle Club. It is DNAinfo, not DNAdisinfo. And that's the New York Times.