Know Thy Headline

Via Craig Silverman and Regret the Error, this lovely little headline out of Oklahoma:

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I don't know, is this on par with calling your political movement "Teabaggers"? Or is this one of those where the editor saw it, chuckled, and toasted the night in his cluttered office, raising a glass of cheap whiskey and muttering, "Stet!"

There's another good hooker joke if you click the link.
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Notes:

Silverman, Craig. "Check your hed". Regret the Error. January 28, 2011. RegretTheError.com. January 28, 2011. http://www.regrettheerror.com/2011/01/28/check-your-hed/

 

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Reflections on "Fail"

Not quite a headline, but ....

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via Slog​

And Goldy offers an interesting theory:

Nearly everything you read, watch or listen to in the American-centric media is produced from an American perspective... a perspective that probably could correctly place Egypt on a map, if it cared to. But, well, most of the time, it doesn't.​

And he's not just whining about FOX News, either.
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Notes:

Goldy. "American Solipsism". Slog. January 30, 2011. Slog.TheStranger.com. January 31, 2011. http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/01/30/american-solipsism

 

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Lol!

 

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Cleaning the Slate

Talk about embarrassing:

In the Feb. 7 Slatest, Sonia Van Gilder Cooke misidentified the Green Bay Packers as a Florida team and misspelled Pittsburgh in a headline.

(Slate)​

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Notes:

Slate. "Corrections". February 11, 2011. Slate.com. February 12, 2011. http://www.slate.com/id/2284687/

 

Sixty-four years later ....

Now this is a correction:

An article on Oct. 21, 1942, about the death of Byron Darnton, a war correspondent for The New York Times, described the death as "accidental" without any elaboration. Two subsequent articles said the boat he was traveling on "was bombed from the air." It was many years before The Times explained further: Mr. Darnton was killed by friendly fire in an attack by an American B-25 bomber on the Australian fishing boat that was carrying the reporter and a force of American troops to Buna, in New Guinea. The circumstances of his death quickly became known to his family and were recounted correctly in Meyer Berger's 1951 history, "The Story of The New York Times: 1851-1951," and in a 1975 article in The Times by Martin Arnold reporting on the discovery of Mr. Darnton's last notebook, the one in which he was writing when he died.

While researching a memoir, "Almost a Family," to be published by Knopf on Thursday, Mr. Darnton's son John, himself a retired reporter and editor for The Times, discovered that the newspaper had a chance to correct the record much earlier and decided not to. On March 9, 1947, Anthony Leviero, a Times reporter who had served as an intelligence officer in the war, filed an article calling Byron Darnton's death "perhaps the first of a number of tragic incidents during the war in which American aircraft mistakenly attacked our own troops." Edwin L. James, the managing editor, would not print it. He later wrote to the publisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger and explained, "The story was not used on the ground it would not do any good."

"I was pretty surprised when I saw that," the younger Mr. Darnton said today, "and I'm still not sure what he meant. No good for whom?"

(McGrath)​

Perhaps it would be more impressive, then, if I told you that the correction was published a week ago?

Better late than never.
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Notes:

McGrath, Charles. "All the News After 64 Years: The Story That Didn't Fly". Arts Beat. March 15, 2011. ArtsBeat.Blogs.NYTimes.com. March 22, 2011. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/all-the-news-after-64-years-the-story-that-didnt-fly/