Maggie’s Proofreading is a dead art

[12Bravo]

Newspaper runs an ad for a Christmas event featuring pictures with Satan. ?

EDITORIAL: Ad lacked attention to detail - Comox Valley Record

If you don’t know by now about the unfortunate typo in an advertisement that ran in the Thursday, Nov. 21 edition of the Comox Valley Record, you are one of the few.

www.comoxvalleyrecord.com

 

[DavidK]

Wat do you meane?

 

[acudaowner]

only you can prevent forest fires

 

[Waorani]

Journalism majors are pretty much bottom of the academic barrel.

 

[Threadcutter308]

Newspaper runs an ad for a Christmas event featuring pictures with Satan. ?

EDITORIAL: Ad lacked attention to detail - Comox Valley Record

If you don’t know by now about the unfortunate typo in an advertisement that ran in the Thursday, Nov. 21 edition of the Comox Valley Record, you are one of the few.

www.comoxvalleyrecord.com

Well, the average “Comoxian” is still at least one step above Langford. They do have that going for them..........

 

[rg1911]

Newspaper runs an ad for a Christmas event featuring pictures with Satan. ?

EDITORIAL: Ad lacked attention to detail - Comox Valley Record

If you don’t know by now about the unfortunate typo in an advertisement that ran in the Thursday, Nov. 21 edition of the Comox Valley Record, you are one of the few.

www.comoxvalleyrecord.com

Having been a newspaper editor for a number of years, and a technical writer for many more, I completely understand how these typos happen. We read what we think we're seeing.
I always twitch a bit when I see a 48-point headline with blatant typos, or typos, usually in bold type, in flyers being mailed to a million customers.
I won't even go into texting messages.

Cheers,
Richard

 

[EddieNFL]

Santa rearranged = Satan. Coincidence?

 

[LeftyJason]

 

[Cheyenne Bodie]

 

[Blue Sky Country]

Newspaper runs an ad for a Christmas event featuring pictures with Satan. ?

EDITORIAL: Ad lacked attention to detail - Comox Valley Record

If you don’t know by now about the unfortunate typo in an advertisement that ran in the Thursday, Nov. 21 edition of the Comox Valley Record, you are one of the few.

www.comoxvalleyrecord.com

Our equivalent would be a Brownells/Cabelas webpage with a header ad for the Brady Campaign or Moms Demand Action... Yeah that would be super awkward.