And those of you who have never made an error like this can giggle from afar. Many of us, however, are old enough to remember when errors like that would sneak through on fully staffed -- what some would now called overstaffed -- copy desks.
Now, if hed busts and promo busts are happening, say, more than once a year, or once every 18 months, then it's well and truly a sign of the decline and fall of newspaperdom. But a miscue like that, to be at all notable, has to be part of a larger trend. It's bad, but it also falls into the "**** happens" category for all of us who have done this job for more than a couple of years.
This is more the sign of the decline.
* Misspelled Louisville (left off first I) when Lamar Jackson won Heisman. On sports front. In 60-point.
* Cloned a receiver in a stat box (listed player twice with different totals)
* Had to retweet all placings from State CC because the writer got overall place and team points confused
* Changed the spelling of a local school midway through the results
* Changed to format midway through results
* Left off runners from Local School A who finished in the 100s but included runners from School B who finished 200+
* Got the name of the All-State soccer team wrong
* Moved a school to Louisville from a neighboring county
* Misspelled the name of a region school twice in a three-week span
* Listed a cross country race at 9:30 p.m. and had a marching band competing at State at 2:15 a.m.
* Misspelled Dickens as in Charles Dickens (left off the s)
* Misspelled Mary (Marry) Poppins
* Misspelled Breeders' Cup (had apostrophe in story, but not in headline)
* Misspelled a school's name twice in a three-line span in weekly predictions
* Had stats in football stat box not match stats listed in story
* Got the name of a person running for city council wrong (listed his brother's first name) AND then wrote that person had dropped out of the race in a later story (he had NOT)
* Wrote that a hotel under construction would be the tallest in the city WHEN the paper already had an article about a different hotel which had just opened (and was just as tall story wise and slightly taller overall due to a tower)
* Misspelled Region (Regoin) every day on the daily schedule during tennis postseason
* Had a cutline of a player catching a pass when he was clearly running with the ball
* Created a school by combining two schools' names
* Created a region (should have said 17th District and not 17th Region ... Kentucky has 16 regions max)
