Eds: Inserts dropped word "not"
You know you're really a copy editor when, ch. LXXVII:
The first thing you do on seeing a correction on the wire is to look for the original, especially if the writethru is topped by a cool phrase like "Eds: Inserts dropped word 'not' in 6th graf." Thus, the appearance of:
Eds: FIXES wording in lede
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Three people who were fleeing police died Friday after crashing into a tractor-trailer parked on an Interstate 70 exit ramp, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.
sets the evil mind to wondering: What wording might the desk have in mind? Let's see ...
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Three people who were feeling police died Friday after crashing into a tractor-trailer parked on an Interstate 70 exit ramp, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.
By the way? Anybody who claims to have never committed a blunder to type doesn't get to laugh at this one.
The first thing you do on seeing a correction on the wire is to look for the original, especially if the writethru is topped by a cool phrase like "Eds: Inserts dropped word 'not' in 6th graf." Thus, the appearance of:
Eds: FIXES wording in lede
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Three people who were fleeing police died Friday after crashing into a tractor-trailer parked on an Interstate 70 exit ramp, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.
sets the evil mind to wondering: What wording might the desk have in mind? Let's see ...
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Three people who were feeling police died Friday after crashing into a tractor-trailer parked on an Interstate 70 exit ramp, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.
By the way? Anybody who claims to have never committed a blunder to type doesn't get to laugh at this one.
posted by fev at 12:44 PM
1 Comments:
Yeah. Editor magnets.
EDS: Please note language in 6th graf.
If we put this sort of stuff on top of stories in the paper, we'd draw more readers than actual headlines would ...
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