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May 30, 2007

He who is without sin…

Filed under: Geeklife, Politics — Will @ 11:25 am

Having been responsible for my fair share of online typos, I’m not sure I should cast aspersions, but this is such a textbook error, if you’ll excuse the pun…

Times headline: Tory resigns after grammer school row

5 Comments »

  1. It’s a cracker! (I blame him out of Frasier.) Or is it Frazier?

    Comment by Peter — May 30, 2007 @ 11:54 am

  2. Sad to say, even the Times now has to employ copywriters who went to bog standard comprehensives.

    Comment by Tom Papworth — May 30, 2007 @ 12:39 pm

  3. Love it! I particularly enjoyed the placement of the “Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training could help” advert at the top of the page - priceless! :)

    Comment by Ben — May 31, 2007 @ 8:43 am

  4. Cringe! Are there no editors, proof readers, spell checks???

    Comment by Peggy — June 1, 2007 @ 6:57 am

  5. There’s no room for proof readers, editors and spell checkers in the online journalism world - this is a stack them high, sell them cheap market.

    Most places two journalists will just double check each others work and then there will be a revisions editor that will fix anything they spot or someone complains about after publication.

    Comment by Ryan Morrison — June 4, 2007 @ 1:02 pm

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