[Ipg-smz] The decline of newspapers

[Mac McCarthy]

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:

         S U P R I S E  ! !

did not surprise our German typesetters - and we noticed it only after it
had been sitting on or desks for an hour or so.

mac

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 6:44 PM Andy Patrizio <andy at andypatrizio.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> https://www.syracuse.com/expo/life-and-culture/erry-2018/12/8fb4be327f624/upstate-ny-newspapers-awkward.html
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> http://hamrosuchana.com/newspaper-humiliated-by-missing-hyphen-in-hilarious-headline-fail
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> 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.
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> So what’s the outcome? Newspapers just grin and bear it or do they
> actually hire more editors?
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