Big typo on SI.com

[Beef03]

On SI.com's front page story for Plummer retiring, their teaser reads:

No, Jake Plummer doesn't want to play for the Dolphins. One day after being traded to Miami, the ex-Broncos quarterback announced his retirement.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Plummer was traded to the Buccaneers of Tampa Bay.

 

[21]

On SI.com's front page story for Plummer retiring, their teaser reads:

No, Jake Plummer doesn't want to play for the Dolphins. One day after being traded to Miami, the ex-Broncos quarterback announced his retirement.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Plummer was traded to the Buccaneers of Tampa Bay.

Maybe it's a metaphor.

 

[Beef03]

Wow, now changed to bucs and Tampa. amazing

 

[MartinEnigmatica]

Hey, at least it was the right state

 

[Chef]

Hey, at least it was the right state

For them, a drastic improvement.

 

[printdust]

On SI.com's front page story for Plummer retiring, their teaser reads:

No, Jake Plummer doesn't want to play for the Dolphins. One day after being traded to Miami, the ex-Broncos quarterback announced his retirement.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Plummer was traded to the Buccaneers of Tampa Bay.

Typos aren't really important these days, even in the mag world.

More important are these issues: Was ad revenue up on the edition and were production deadlines made, thereby avoiding costly overtime issues? If not, we might have to cut another couple of printpress guys.

 

[spnited]

This was not the mag, dust, it was SI.com ... online is where not only do mistakes not matter, facts often don't matter

 

[write then drink]

This was not the mag, dust, it was SI.com ... online is where not only do mistakes not matter, facts often don't matter

yeah, but laying off 250 people won't affect the product, right?

 

[printdust]

Checks are still written out by the same boss.

Since papers added the online equation, in my market, most have CUT staff.

 

[Idaho]

That's not a typo. A typo would be Tanpa or Bucccaneers.

Miami and Dolphins are big, fat, ugly errors. Big difference. Typos I can live with most of the time. Big, fat, ugly errors like that are inexcusable.

 

[trounced]

That's not a typo. A typo would be Tanpa or Bucccaneers.

Miami and Dolphins are big, fat, ugly errors. Big difference. Typos I can live with most of the time. Big, fat, ugly errors like that are inexcusable.

Typos are when the Trib reads that Frank Thomas likes to take pitchers deep into the count (but forgetting the O). Seriously, it happened.

 

[alleyallen]

That's not a typo. A typo would be Tanpa or Bucccaneers.

Miami and Dolphins are big, fat, ugly errors. Big difference. Typos I can live with most of the time. Big, fat, ugly errors like that are inexcusable.

Typos are when the Trib reads that Frank Thomas likes to take pitchers deep into the count (but forgetting the O). Seriously, it happened.

The bigger question begs...does Frank really like to take them "deep?"

 

[lantaur]

... online is where not only do mistakes not matter, facts often don't matter

That is such bull****; an old excuse (which has never been true) from print types who fear/dislike/don't understand the online world.

 

[Idaho]

No, lantaur, it's sadly sometimes a bitter reality because online mistakes often just disappear after they are brought to light. Facts matter, but when stuff isn't run through editors -- or worse, is typed up by people like Scoop -- facts are rarely checked until a reader sends in an email.

 

[alleyallen]

... online is where not only do mistakes not matter, facts often don't matter

That is such bull****; an old excuse (which has never been true) from print types who fear/dislike/don't understand the online world.

The fact that you can fix a mistake online -- in print, it's too f-ing bad -- and play like it never happened is what draws the ire in the first place.

 

[lantaur]

No, lantaur, it's sadly sometimes a bitter reality because online mistakes often just disappear after they are brought to light. Facts matter, but when stuff isn't run through editors -- or worse, is typed up by people like Scoop -- facts are rarely checked until a reader sends in an email.

Do you really think the majority of stuff on the web is not run through an editor, or some sort of editorial process? The problem is in teaching people how to edit (and to question a writer, if even if it is a "big name"), and this is for online or print.

But to think that sites like ESPN, SI.com, SportsLine, Yahoo, etc., just throw things up willy-nilly is a ridiculous notion.

And sorry if the medium lends itself to easy self-correction ... but then shouldn't it be corrected? Some things do slip by, in any medium.

(That being said, this was an egregious mistake. But mistakes do happen. Once in my local paper eons ago, the story was about Joe Morgan, the ex-Reds player. The picture which ran was of Joe Morgan, Red Sox manager.)

 

[Idaho]

Let's just put it this way, I have seen so much slopppy crap on sites ranging from ESPN.com to the local paper that I know has absolutely not been read by an editor. I believe most is run past the eyes of several editors, but to suggest there is not at times a bunch of sloppily-written, poorly (if at all) edited copy posted on websites for reputable news organizations is also a ridiculous notion.

I see way too much of it to think it's just a fluke.