[Ipg-smz] The decline of newspapers

[Gabe Goldberg]

My father -- NYC reporter -- told story that after long-ago redesign of 
New York Post (then a broadsheet, not tabloid) -- after a while (weeks, 
at least) someone inquired what the gag was about split-sheet (first 
page second section) heading. Inspection revealed it to be

New Pork Yost

...but I've never been able to confirm this. Maybe Newseum can help or a 
trial subscription to newspapers.com.

I used to collect occasional WaPo typos because they were unusual, no 
longer. Towards end of my freelancing for Post -- maybe 2010 -- editor 
warned me to take extra care in submissions because copy desk had been 
greatly reduced.

On 12/11/2018 10:18 PM, Mac McCarthy wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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.
>
>     https://www.syracuse.com/expo/life-and-culture/erry-2018/12/8fb4be327f624/upstate-ny-newspapers-awkward.html
>
>     http://hamrosuchana.com/newspaper-humiliated-by-missing-hyphen-in-hilarious-headline-fail
>
>     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.
>
>     So what’s the outcome? Newspapers just grin and bear it or do they
>     actually hire more editors?
>
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> Mac McCarthy
>
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