They need copy editors to keep them from making mistakes like this one:
Ouch!
Yes, that’s a real road and a real screw-up on the part of a road contractor near Greensboro, N.C. The picture is by staffer Joseph Rodriguez of the Greensboro News & Record, which, naturally, played the photo well on Tuesday’s front:
The News & Record even set a brief photo gallery to music. (Beware: This plays automatically and seems a bit loud. So turn down your volume first.)
The signage was only a temporary paint job anyway. Or so the contractor says. They did get it fixed Tuesday afternoon — after 67,625 copies of that front page were distributed across the Triad region.
Here’s an updated photo of that same marking, from WXII Channel 12:
Read all about the mishap here.
It could have been worse, WXII points out. This sign, erected a few weeks ago in Rothschild, Wis., contains only four words. Three of them are misspelled:
Read all about that debacle here.
You know who else needs copy editors? Restaurants. And cake decorators. And baseball jersey manufacturers. And T-shirt designers. And Time magazine.
I find these tidbits amusing, especially when not long ago, a page with two headline typos was praised here.
A 75 percent typo rate is pretty high, though.