In Tweed’s continuing series on Great Moments in Student Journalism, we offer this correction, posted on Wednesday by the Iowa State Daily:
The error to which the editor’s note refers was — to use the technical term — a doozy:
(The image above is via Reddit, and the date, which should say “January 12, 2011,” is embedded. To see a slightly large version, click on the image.)
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8 Responses to Advice on Consent
akprof - January 13, 2011 at 4:21 pm
Yikes!! How prominent was the correction?
rmalamud - January 13, 2011 at 5:00 pm
The accompanying photo is, I’d say, offensively salacious.
v8573254 - January 13, 2011 at 5:15 pm
Many daily newspapers (of course, this wasn’t one) have partially or wholesale fired their copy editors.
panchodesastre - January 14, 2011 at 8:24 am
New correction to title: “Who can make mistakes?”
e_eddie_edwards - January 14, 2011 at 10:20 am
Guess the ISD didn’t sufficiently “poof” read the article?