I know, glass houses, etc, etc., but I absolutely love reading about errors in newspapers and such. Partly it’s schadenfreude, but partly they’re so unintentionally hilarious, and surrounded by such a straight ‘just the facts’ approach, that the humour is set off even more.
So I giggled all the way through the extensive roundup at RegretTheError.com of their best and funniest errors, corrections and other news mistakes of 2009.
I posted one, almost at random, above. There are literally dozens — scores! — more.
How about this classic:
http://torontoist.com/2009/12/hangin_out_at_st_peters.php
Ah, print…where quality is Job One.
I believe that very one was a runner up in the “Best Photo Error” category.
Although it only sort of applies, I’ve been looking to share the following journalistic masterpiece: http://www.popbitch.com/home/2009/10/05/red-pepper-news/