The Year in Errors
The blog Report the Error has the funniest mistakes and corrections made by news organizations throughout the year. You should really read the whole thing - it's that hilarious - but here is my favorite one.
The American Family Association’s OneNewsNow site has a standard practice of using the word “homosexual” instead of “gay.” They even set up a filter to automatically make the change. This didn’t serve ONN well when a sprinter named Tyson Gay made news at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials. He suddenly became Tyson Homosexual when the site’s filter got a hold of an AP story:
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4 comments:
Lol
The idiots must have made every 'happy and gay' person 'happy and homosexual'
Bubs, thanks so much for posting this. I sent it out to a bunch of friends two days ago and we're still laughing. One of my favorites was "Novak has been a columnist for Chicago Sun-Times for decades. He announced last month he has a brain."
a post brilliant enough to warrant a precise, one word comment emanating with the reverence i feel for this stupendous example of how the media really operates, any where in the world.
Muna: I'm guessing that wasn't an error as much as copy editor mischief. Like the one calling Joe Lieberman the Democratic vice presidential prick.
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