They need copy editors to keep them from making mistakes like this one:
That’s a story posted Sunday by Google’s feed from the Associated Press.
Part of Google’s system, of course, involves automatically creating a locator map of the city in the dateline. The story is about those trapped miners in the San Jose Mine near Copiapó, Chile.
Here, however, is a closeup of the map you saw above:
Yep. I’m afraid so.
As Ryan Smith of the New Orleans Times-Picayune for tweeted today:
No wonder it’s going to take them months to reach the trapped Chilean miners
Last time I checked, this map is still posted. See it for yourself here.
You know who else needs copy editors? Billboard companies. And rubber stamp designers. And restaurants. And the New York Jets. And the Washington Post and the New York Times. And the St. Louis Cardinals. And 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 breakfast joints. And cake decorators. And Time magazine. And sign painters. And T-shirt designers. And baseball jersey manufacturers.
Thanks to Ryan for the tip.
Try looking at Sports stories on Yahoo. Feel fortunate if the photo goes with the article.
Of course, the article already will have errors, as AP apparently has decided to go with the “off the top of the head” method for listing “facts” in its college football articles.
So if you want to relive those heady days of Penn State playing for the 1995 national title, AND you want to see a picture of Vinny Testaverde throwing an interception against Oklahoma, then you might get your wish.
This actually happened over a year ago as well. Maybe 2 years? It was when the (I want to say) Russian tanks were entering Georgia when there was bad blood all around. But it had the state of Georgia as the locator, with the pin just outside of Savannah.
…on second thought, was it Google or AFP? It was a Google locator.
Right here, Andy:
http://www.visualeditors.com/apple/2008/08/our-aggregating-script-regrets-the-error/