Detroit Free Press gets the wrong guy

Free Press apology:

 

Those Newsroom of the Future copy editors are really earning their salary.

 

Could this be as simple as a non-sports designer not knowing the difference for the front page? When I was a copy desk intern at a tiny daily, the sports desk used to always make me check the front sports tease "to make sure they don't fuck it up."

 

Yes, but the Seattle Times just has a a newsroom. It's not a Newsroom of the Future.

 

Is that Harbaugh wearing a 49ers cap? Honest mistake!

 

It did not.

 

Wouldn't be surprised. One of the South Florida papers once ran an A1 story with a headline on Pat "Reilly." And that DID make it out of the building. The news-side copy editor who handled the story knew sports and had it right, but the night news editor (who knew little about sports) rewrote the head and introduced the error. This was the same night news editor who once wrote the following headline: "Lewinsky granted broad immunity."

 

Hmmm, I wonder who that fuckup falls upon in that structure.

 

Posted this on social media and someone replied "Like the average guy could tell the difference?" I guess I'm better than average then, yay!

 

Also the average guy in southeast Michigan where Jim Harbaugh's face has been plastered all over social media as "the next U of M head coach" since the Shane Morris incident can probably tell