Detroit Free Press gets the wrong guy

[MNgremlin]

Free Press apology:

 

[Baron Scicluna]

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

 

[SnarkShark]

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 **** it up."

 

[BTExpress]

 

[Baron Scicluna]

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

 

[Ace]

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

 

[Moderator1]

Did that Seattle paper make it out of the building? Story I heard was it was caught, a new press run was ordered but somebody snapped a picture of it.

 

[BTExpress]

It did not.

 

[Bronco77]

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 **** it up."

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."

 

[dirtybird]

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

Hmmm, I wonder who that ****up falls upon in that structure.

 

[MNgremlin]

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!

 

[ColdCat]

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

 

[Steak Snabler]

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

When we reach the point where "stupid people won't notice" is a valid excuse for a factual error, we've failed as both a profession and a society.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

There was a paper that was running NCAA Tournament info boxes with mugshots of the coach. That same day, there was a criminal with the last name Richardson who had his mug running in the police blotter. When the blotter came out, there was a picture of Nolan Richardson.

They caught the mistake and chased it, but a few papers got out and the story was relayed to Richardson at the NCAAs, who reacted the way you would have expected him to.

 

[MTM]

Our paper had Willie "Mayes" in a photo caption on the book review page, even though it was correct in the subhed and article.

And even if the paginator/copy editor does not know sports, some names should be iconic enough that they are recognized by anyone in journalism.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

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 **** it up."

I've worked with

Our paper had Willie "Mayes" in a photo caption on the book review page, even though it was correct in the subhed and article.

And even if the paginator/copy editor does not know sports, some name should be iconic enough that they are recognized by anyone in journalism.

Probably watched "Major League" a few too many times.

 

[Tarheel316]

Hmmm, I wonder who that ****up falls upon in that structure.

The storytelling coach?

 

[TwoGloves]

I once wrote a column predicting Kenny Perry would win the local PGA Tour event (which he did) but the copy editor ran several photos of Chris Perry because he was mentioned in the story as having contended a couple years earlier. Made it into an A1 teez too.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Eric Holder's dead, according to the New York Post.

http://jimromenesko.com/2014/12/29/new-york-post-editorial-kills-off-eric-holder/

 

[playthrough]

Is the Detroit Free Press one of the Gannett papers laid out in Louisville?