Why don't all newspapers do this?
Jan. 14th, 2006 06:45 pmIf you have to print retractions, as all news sources do from time to time, the least you can do is make it interesting.
http://www.regrettheerror.com/2004/10/never_a_dull_co.html
And a round-up of the Seattle Stranger's best corrections can be found here. Some of the errors that they regret include:
Music editor Jennifer Maerz is a shitty headline writer, and we regret letting her write so many of them.
and...
The Stranger regrets that Jim Compton won reelection in this year's Seattle City Council race, despite the best efforts of our news team.
and furthermore, regarding one of their stories ...
This is the most incomprehensible lead paragraph ever published in The Stranger. We regret it deeply.
Ah, nothing like newspaper humor when you work in the newspaper industry.
EDIT: Aha, I just found this year's error roundup.
I really need to stop reading this and get some work done...
As the book section of the September 15 Stranger was going to press, a chunk of text in a wonderful audience review by author Dave Eggers was inadvertently highlighted by a production staffer, who then inadvertently typed the letter "z," replacing an entire paragraph, and then some, with that final letter of the alphabet, followed by a space. We will never stop regretting this.
http://www.regrettheerror.com/2004/10/never_a_dull_co.html
And a round-up of the Seattle Stranger's best corrections can be found here. Some of the errors that they regret include:
Music editor Jennifer Maerz is a shitty headline writer, and we regret letting her write so many of them.
and...
The Stranger regrets that Jim Compton won reelection in this year's Seattle City Council race, despite the best efforts of our news team.
and furthermore, regarding one of their stories ...
This is the most incomprehensible lead paragraph ever published in The Stranger. We regret it deeply.
Ah, nothing like newspaper humor when you work in the newspaper industry.
EDIT: Aha, I just found this year's error roundup.
I really need to stop reading this and get some work done...
As the book section of the September 15 Stranger was going to press, a chunk of text in a wonderful audience review by author Dave Eggers was inadvertently highlighted by a production staffer, who then inadvertently typed the letter "z," replacing an entire paragraph, and then some, with that final letter of the alphabet, followed by a space. We will never stop regretting this.