LA Times -- Tag Briefs Subhead Large

I can see one of these mistakes getting by, but a whole fucking page? No excuse.

 

WFFW.

 

Tag briefs, back again ....

Whoomp! There it is!

 

Ah, I have to say -- that's exactly how these things happen ... if you catch one, you're going to catch them all...

 

i laughed

 

The best thing about this is that - if the LA Times uses CCI - the system puts in its own dummy text and won't let people typeset the page with system-generated dummy text on it.

CCI usually keeps these types of mistakes from happening.

So not only did the designer or copy editor get rid of the system-generated dummy text, but they then put in their own dummy text instead.

Silly mistake.

Or maybe the LAT got rid of the safeguards against the system-generated dummy text error for some reason.

 

My favorite is the byline I read in my hometown rag every now and then:

First Name Last Name
The Daily Rag

 

As I have related here previously, the dummy test thing happened on the front page cover story of sports once in the late 1980s of USA Today in the final edition:

And a
six-line
readout
goes
right
here

I was 800 miles away, visiting my mom. I did the classic spit-take when I saw it.

There was an explanation, but it wasn't budget or personnel cutbacks.

Sh*t happens, folks.

 

Shit happens, maybe it was directly related to the cutbacks on the copy desk, maybe it wasn't.

I'm glad people are noticing, though. But I fear this is not the tipping point, contrary to the blog, and the tipping point will be much worse.