Speaking of bad headlines ...

I feel for these guys -- many of us have been there -- but it's already on Poynter, so:

http://www.beadesigngroup.com/blog/archives/2006/12/the_impotence_of_proofing.shtml

 

I've had it happen.

And that's all I'll say.

 

Seeing that kind of made my stomach turn.

 

That's bad, but this is one of my personal favorites.
Let's just say it could have been written another way.....
http://www.roanoke.com/business/wb/wb/xp-88553

 

All I want to say is on the main page, the thread title is truncated.

So what I saw was, "Speaking of bad head..."

 

Well, you know what they say ...

 

Anyone else notice that the header on the piece reads "The impotence of proofing"?

I hope this was a little joke.....

 

Yeah, that's the only reason I clicked on this thread

 

Read all the way down to the bottom of the file.

 

Thank god for that. The page wasn't loading up properly for me.

 

I have seen so many mistakes that are about 1,000X worse than that one...

 

People keep saying in that article that is was a proofing error at the Omaha paper.

What is proofing? Do papers hire enough folks on the desk to actually proof pages on deadline?