Fox News’ web site needs a copy editor to keep it from making a humdinger like this:
Wow. Slow down, guys, and get it right before you post!
Thanks to the awesome Patrick Garvin for the tip.
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UPDATE: This just in! Fox News’ TV operation apparently made the same mistake with its onscreen TV crawl as well:
Thanks to Niko Batallones for the tip!
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UPDATE:
It’s been pointed out, now, that the TV graphic above may have been a Fox affiliate and not actually Fox News. Either way, though, this appears to be an epidemic. David Sheets of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch tweets tonight:
Did all of the Fox news stations do this? No. 5 I’ve seen so far.
And here is the one to which he links:
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You know who else needs copy editors? Local TV news operations. Chicago’s WMAQ-TV in particular. And other local TV news operations. And Martha Stewart’s TV operation. And Baseball jersey manufacturers. And Kansas State University. And the New York Jets, the Minnesota Vikings, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Washington Nationals (boy, do they need a copy editor). And Fox Sports. And college athletic department ticket offices. And the Virginia general assembly. And college alumni magazines. And pharmacies. And the makers of Sudafed. And Borders bookstore. And Tea Party candidates. And city and county Boards of Elections. And government agencies. And the U.S. Postal Service. And South African traffic cops. And Google News’ ‘bots. And billboard companies. And sign painters. And rubber stamp designers. And restaurants, breakfast joints, Chinese restaurants and cake decorators. And South Africa’s New Age newspaper. And Dublin’s Sunday Business Post. And the Washington Post, the New York Times, the New York Post, Newsday, the Chicago Sun-Times (Hey! A repeat offender!), the Rochester, N.Y., Democrat & Chronicle, the Missoula, Mont., Missoulian, the Amarillo (Texas) Globe News, the Waynesboro News Virginian, the Virginian-Pilot, the Green Bay Press-Gazette, the Carbondale, Ill., Southern Illinoisian, CNN and Time magazine. And newspapers in the U.K. And drive-in movie theater managers. And Home Depot and manufacturers of “hoodies.” And T-shirt designers. And road paving contractors.
And another example, spotted on Twitter!
http://twitpic.com/4s7mp3
That’s what they’ve always called him – just to be different. Except when they “accidentally” call him Obama Bin Laden.
Ha! They did that tonight, too, Dave! Check out the update I posted just as you were typing that comment.
For whatever it’s worth, those aren’t Fox News Channel graphics in those screengrabs. Probably a local Fox affiliate somewhere.
Wonder how many East Coast papers are frantically pushing deadlines back tonight to get this in?
We’re pushing back deadlines a bit, Scott, at the St. Petersburg Times. The A section has grown and evolved through every section tonight, and man, talk about a team effort, it was here.
Oh: We ran “DEAD” as well, but at 523 pt.
Am I completely missing something in the original post? FoxNews.com went with the FBI’s spelling…
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/usama-bin-laden
Apparently you are the one who should slow down before posting (and the \awesome\ Patrick Garvin for the tip). Fox uses the widely accepted \Usama\ spelling of the name. This is the same spelling the FBI and others use and have used for years. While I hate to be defending Fox News, I suggest that you get your facts straight before criticizing others.
The MSNBC correspondent did the same thing on Twitter.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/02/typo-msnbc-correspondent-accidentally-reports-on-twitter-that-obama-killed/
Fox has Usama all over their site, which makes the “Obama” that much more of a head shaker. But at one point, they had “Usama bin Landen” up. Link here: http://catroommate.com/2011/05/confrimed-bin-landen-is-dead/
I’m sorry, apparently they “confrimed” that Bin Landen was dead. Poor guy.
http://www.regrettheerror.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Landen.png
I see one typo in the three examples you cite: the \Obama\ bin Laden headline. The two shown appear to be from the same station (note same type, same tie on the anchor). FNC has always used \Usama\ (much like all the different spellings of Gaddafi out there).
Some local stations use \Osama\ instead, explaining the typo on the Fox 40 station shown above.
I like how, hours later, nothing has been corrected in this post, which was flawed from the start.