<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">At the Overseas Weekly, a GI newspaper in Germany, we published in the 1970s a front-page headline, in 72 points, expressing joy that many GIs would be going home early.The one word headline: </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">         S U P R I S E  ! !</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">did not surprise our German typesetters - and we noticed it only after it had been sitting on or desks for an hour or so.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">mac</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 6:44 PM Andy Patrizio <<a href="mailto:andy@andypatrizio.com">andy@andypatrizio.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-1689202761807338293WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">We’ve talked for a long time about how newspapers are going downhill in terms of coverage as they cut staff, but now we’re seeing a string of seriously embarrassing gaffes in headlines.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.syracuse.com/expo/life-and-culture/erry-2018/12/8fb4be327f624/upstate-ny-newspapers-awkward.html" target="_blank">https://www.syracuse.com/expo/life-and-culture/erry-2018/12/8fb4be327f624/upstate-ny-newspapers-awkward.html</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://hamrosuchana.com/newspaper-humiliated-by-missing-hyphen-in-hilarious-headline-fail" target="_blank">http://hamrosuchana.com/newspaper-humiliated-by-missing-hyphen-in-hilarious-headline-fail</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">There was a third example but I can’t find it. All three are headlines in big font that should jump out at people, and you would think there are multiple layers of editorial to catch this.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">So what’s the outcome? Newspapers just grin and bear it or do they actually hire more editors?<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>-- <br>
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