I don’t normally show most newspaper errors. Because, y’know, that’d be a full-time job in itself.
But the folks behind the Grammar Monkeys Twitter feed found this gem in Sunday’s New York Times.
The goof is in a pull-quote, as opposed to a headline or a story. Meaning the designer really should have cut-and-pasted:
Grammar Monkeys are the copy editors of the Wichita (Kansas) Eagle. Find their Twitter feed here and their blog here.
You know who else needs copy editors? The web folks for the St. Louis Cardinals. Drive-in movie theater managers. And Home Depot and manufacturers of “hoodies.” And CNN. And college athletic department ticket offices. And road paving contractors. And restaurants. And cake decorators. And baseball jersey manufacturers. And T-shirt designers. And Time magazine. And sign painters. And cake decorators. And T-shirt designers. And baseball jersey manufacturers.
Actually, The Times calls those “blurbs” and they’re written by copy editors — so it’s not TOTALLY the designer’s fault. Still, tsk tsk.
When I was looking for info about former NFL players, I discovered that Jamal Anderson’s Web site needs a copy editor pretty badly.