Telegraph cocks-up Hadron headline
March 19th, 2010Posted by Joel Gunter in Journalism
I’m sure we ordinarily consider ourselves above such things, but, as it is Friday afternoon on the Journalism.co.uk blog, here is a pretty regrettable subbing error from the Telegraph to brighten up your (rainy, if in the south of England) day.
The typo was amended quite quickly, as you can imagine, but not quickly enough…
Screenshot by Skepchick on Flickr
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March 19th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
Probably a ruse to get more hits.
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