Whoops on cover photo for Preds' special section

So The Tennessean puts out a postseason special section on the Predators, regaling and celebrating the team's run to the Stanley Cup finals.

It didn't take long for the problem to be visible on the huge cover photo ... it's from last season. There were several indicators, the worst being the inclusion of Shea Weber, who was traded away before this season.

Here's a good rundown of the whole deal ...

Tennessean Uses File Photo on 2017 Preds Section

Included is a Twitter apology/explanation from sports editor Dave Ammenheuser, then a follow-up from him that blamed it on a designer. I can't imagine a designer taking it on themselves to swap out a cover photo without everyone involved signing off on it, but from what I've heard about how much of a dumpster fire the Nashville Design Studio is, maybe it isn't a surprise.

Paul Kuharsky, a former Titans beat writer then, seems to be enjoying this quite a bit on Twitter. Can't blame him.

 

The sports editor publicly blames a designer? Now that's some strong leadership.

 

May be an indicator of the designer going rogue and doing this completely on their own. Could be the SE going home thinking everything is settled, then waking up to a big, embarrassing change.

Still not the best look, though.

 

Could be none of them know shit about hockey too.

 

Coach K.
Coach Cal.
Big G designers strike again.
It happens.
We screwed up A-Rod's name in Miami on a baseball special section cover. Proofers wanted us to add an accent mark, which was a relatively new style, so the designer added the accent but wiped out the "r" in front of the accented "i" and punched it. I didn't catch it. E, me. I imagine A-Rod has been called worse things than "Rodiguez," but that still bothers me. It's only been, oh, close to 20 years. I'll get over it.

 

Does Alex Rodriguez even use an accent mark?

 

To the point in bold, I'm guessing everyone did sign 0ff on it but just didn't realize it was a 2016 photo. I don't think it was the designer going rogue or even that the SE was blaming the designer. He's just explaining what happened.

 

That happens. Designer may have just been told to find a Preds jubilation shot. In the case Moddy cited, what made it worse was not only was Morse no longer with the Nats, but he was playing for the Giants, their opponent in the NLDS.

 

Not to be a jerk but in any CMS I've used, it's pretty easy to restrict your image search by dates. Takes five seconds. Ok, maybe 10.

I get why it happened once it was on the page, though. Does anyone have time to really look at anything anymore?

 

I'd never seen A-Rod use one, but Ma Herald said to hell with personal choice, give him an accent mark because that's our new style. You speak Spanish, you get an accent.
Ma Herald was a demanding little monster.
I think they eventually amended the policy to only use the accent when the person does. Progress.
I still should have caught it. E, me.
I kept that proof for a long time -- the accent mark in large red Sharpie was so pretty -- just to remind myself about the danger of implementing stupid policies and the need to check everything every time.

 

I'm aware of a design-center head bust that not only resulted in a correction in the affected paper that threw the central copy desk under the bus, but also a demand from the paper's top newsroom executives that the copy editor who wrote the headline be fired (fortunately, that didn't happen).