Monday, October 05, 2009

Newspaper stuff-ups

Every now and agin, journalists and those in the media are given a good laugh.
But this type of thing is only funny when it happens to the competition. It means
they've stuffed-up and we can all laugh at how crap they are.

Well in this case, it's us - The Argus - who are crap.

The picture on the left is of a middle page in the paper. And the one on the right is the same page zoomed in.
Notice the headline.



"Head in here 48 pt" is the type of headline I see (as a sub) all the time. The guy who created the page makes a block for the headline and because he hasn't read the story, he can't write a headline so he just writes something like 'heady heady heady goes herey'.
Sometimes he says what font he's using, or the size - 48 pt for example.
Then the sub changes it after reading the story to something that makes sense.

The above headline means a couple of people stuffed-up big time, because this should never have been allowed to get into the paper.

Funnily enough, a few weeks back a similar thing happened with the posters that are put up along the side of the roads when he poster read "Heady, heady heady goes here" appeared in a local suburb.

Sigh.

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