Notice a few problems with this page?

[ondeadline]

 

[Ace]

The blog promo should have been above the fold?

 

[audreyld]

I have a problem with the fact that the picture is an action shot of the losing team.

But that could just be me.

And, are there little Xs instead of numbers for the Mavs?

 

[ondeadline]

OK, try looking at the lede to the NBA story. Look at those XX point totals for the Mavs. How about the point totals for the Heat and the score, which look remarkably like those from Game 1. "Mavs draw first blood." Never mind it's a bad cliche, but I believe they "drew that blood" in Game 1.

 

[sportschick]

Oops. I'd hate to be that designer/copy editor this morning. Yikes. I left x's in the index once and almost got canned. I'd hate to do something this bad.

 

[ballscribe]

Looks like a couple of deskers are going to get a new one torn when they roll into the office in the next few hours. Let's hope it's just an early edition.

 

[pallister]

Looks like they took the template from Game 1 and forgot to update the score, extra info, headline, subhead and photo. Not to mention the dummy copy in the lead. Ouch!

 

[wickedwritah]

Too much white space, too.

 

[linotype]

Probably doesn't help that the centerpiece cutline is cut off mid-sentence, either.

 

[wickedwritah]

Are we sure this made it out of the building, and that a proof somehow wasn't accidentally posted on the Web site?

 

[ondeadline]

Yep, here's the Friday sports front:

 

[wickedwritah]

I'm asking: are we sure that the first page actually left the building? Went to the press?

I could see where someone could easily PDF the wrong page -- at least that *could* happen at our shop.

Or someone could've made the changes, hit 'print' to sent it to the negative machine, but didn't save the changes in the document.

I know odds are it did leave the building, but weird things happen.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

Too much white space, too.

Even more white space in that second one.

 

[Chi City 81]

Wow, what a major ****up.

 

[ondeadline]

I have no idea how many of these (if any) made print, but this is the page you get on its Web site.

 

[spnited]

A bigger question:
Why is the Virginian-Pilot centerpiecing the NBA Finals right up against deadline with an AP story when they have a staff story on a Virginia guy winning his first NASCAR race, in the afternoon, with plenty of time to give it good treatment?
Not only bad execution, very bad news judgment from a paper with a very good reputation.

 

[Ace]

Good point. Is the Dallas-Miami Finals really dwarfing everything else in Virginia these days?

 

[steveu]

Wow. Wonder if the Pilot will need new copy editors soon? And new writers, if some writers volunteer for desk duty? ;)
(I'll say it myself... YOU'RE HIRED! :)

Good point on the NASCAR story. That would have been front and center for me. Screw the NBA.

 

[ondeadline]

Agreed that the race should have been the main story, but it is an AP story and not a staff story.

 

[spnited]

Agreed that the race should have been the main story, but it is an AP story and not a staff story.

I sit corrected OD...misread the byline.
Still a better CP for a Virgnia paper