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People On Twitter Are Sharing The Biggest Newspaper Fails That Resulted In Hilarious Corrections (30 Pics)
To paraphrase a Lithuanian proverb, proofread nine times, publish once. Because if you cheat at the first, you might end up like these editors who had to make up for it during the second.
Earlier this month, writer Séamas O'Reilly tweeted his all-time favorite press screw up/apology (published by the National Enquirer in 1997) and challenged other people to share more of them.
Luckily, O'Reilly's tweet went viral and his call to action was answered. Turns out, the days of traditional media were pretty wild!
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
I know, it took me some time to get the beamer going for the Annual Mother Meeting in my school. And there were about 125 women present.
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Random Panda 4 years ago
Whoever wrote the first one absolutely 100% knew what they were doing!
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
How many people called Donnie McArthur an old pouffe before he made a complaint?
Calypso poet 4 years ago
How many people are still calling him that to this day?
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
I own one of these and didn't know it was called a pouffe until I just googled the word.
Deutschland Mädchen 4 years ago
I thought it was an insult until I read your comment 😅
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Peter Hirshberg, who has led emerging media and technology companies for more than 25 years, said the internet has changed the way we make and experience nearly all media in just one generation. Gone are the days when journalists bashed their heads against the table after leaving a mistake in their text. Now, they can just click 'Edit' on their news website and get rid of it in a few seconds. The industry has picked up the pace.
"Writers for the blog website Gawker watch real-time web consumption statistics on all of their posts—and they instantly learn how to craft content to best command an audience," Hirshberg wrote. "The head programmer for Fox Television Network similarly has a readout that gives an in-depth analysis of audience behavior, interest, and sentiment. In the run-up to the final episode of the American television drama Breaking Bad, the series was drawing up to 100,000 tweets a day, a clear indication that the audience was as interested in what it had to say as what the producers were creating."
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Jonny Man 4 years ago
Wait, so... the brown bear, which is not a brown bear, but in fact a brown black bear (and not a black brown bear) is... brown despite not being brown, and black despite not being black? It is still a bear right?
Mosheh Wolf 4 years ago
A brown bear is a bear of the species Ursus arctos. This species includes different subspecies and distinct populations, which include grizzly bears and Kodiak bears. It is found across both North America and Eurasia. It is the color brown. The black bear, which usually means the American black bear, is a smaller bear of the species Ursus americanus. It is found throughout North America. Most subspecies are indded black, but some subspecies and populations are other colors. This includes the cinnamon bear Ursus americanus cinnamomum, of which many individuals are, indeed, a reddish-brown color. These are brown black bears.
Joey 3 years ago
See, that's what they should have done. Be more imagnative with names, then there would be no confusion. Not just "brown" and "black". A cinnamon bear is a lovely name. There should be a pretzel bear, a champagne bear, a potato bear, a cumin bear ... Or how about names. The Douglas bear. The Guinness bear. The O'Roary bear. Or maybe O'Reary - after all, those bear bottoms deserve a bit of praise.
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Kate 4 years ago
A brown bear is the actual name of what we usually call grizzly bears. They're like, three times the size of black bears... which come in lots of shades of brown.
littlesaresare 4 years ago
All grizzlies are brown bears, but not all brown bears are grizzlies. Grizzly bears are a type of brown bear. Brown bear is the species, of which there are quite a lot of subspecies - one of those subspecies being the grizzly.
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SomePeopleCallMeMaurice 4 years ago
You have to wonder, who was the the person who complained about it!
littlesaresare 4 years ago
Well it's a pretty notable error for anyone with an interest in bears or zoology. It might be funny because the names are colours, but brown bears and black bears are still different species. It's the same sort of error as calling a lion a tiger or vice versa.
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Bastette Cat 4 years ago
Why did they have to repeat the offending Snapchat handle in the correction?
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Vicky Z 4 years ago
Harvesting your own seed could be fun too unless you really hate children😅😅😅 That's hilarious and should be the top #1
Miztre 4 years ago
But if you're harvesting your own seed, I don't think there's much of a chance of children as the outcome lol
Load More Replies... Calypso poet 4 years ago
Well, since that day was my husband's birthday and I was really sick he had to go with the first choice. 😳😂
However, the process that happens before a story is published has also transformed. Aleks Krotoski, who has a Ph.D. in the social psychology of relationships in online communities, said the web has become the go-to point for the globe when it comes to getting information, and the same applies to reporters. "Online, they find a multiplicity of perspectives and a library of available knowledge that provides the context for stories. Increasingly, the stories are coming from the web."
Broadly speaking, technology has improved the processes of identifying stories that are newsworthy. Feeds from social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter "provide a snapshot of events happening around the world from the viewpoint of first-hand witnesses, and blogs and citizen news sources offer analytical perspectives from the ground faster than print or television can provide."
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Robert T 4 years ago (edited)
He's likely to have had a purple something else if he'd been injured by an IUD. ;-)
MrLoufoque 4 years ago
And now I imagine insurgents or enemy combatants throwing IUDs at soldiers. Pretty funny.
Dill 4 years ago
Not related really but anyone notice how the Tesla logo looks so much like an IUD?
Calypso poet 4 years ago
Omg! After 3 painful insertions you would think I would have noticed! Now I can't unsee it! I'm suing Elon for not having a trigger warning! 😂
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Calypso poet 4 years ago
An IED is an explosive terrorists leave to kill and maim servicemen and innocent people. An IUD is a birth control device inserted into a woman's cervix. Also, a Woman was once detained by TSA in US airport because the metal detector kept going off and she joked it might be her (copper) IUD. The TSA thought she said IED because they didn't know the difference.
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Becky Samuel 4 years ago
Unfortunately it matters because the decisions made by the Pope have a huge effect on the lives of millions, especially women's lives.
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Nor 4 years ago
So you'd rather be known as a racists instead of a drug addict. A drug addict can be rehabilitated, a racist will remain just that for all their life
NoWayNoWay 4 years ago
She thrives off being known as a racist and all round vile tramp.
Load More Replies... Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
This is not the first or last time the "lovely" Ms Hopkins' Karen-like habit of complaining instead of taking her lumps has called her international troubles. She was kicked out of Australia in July for going on twitter and complaining about them enforcing their quarantine rules and posting pictures of herself taunting the guards without a mask. In June 2020 she got globally banned by twitter after complaining about losing her blue checkmark in a threatening and racist attack from her twitter account and linking it to Donald Trump.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Drug them before you start spreading racism. Because no one in their right mind will accept racism.
Missi Boness 4 years ago
I was hoping someone else would catch that choice phrasing. lol
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Even Paul Mason, the economics editor on BBC2's Newsnight, uses these tools to get an angle on what's happening and what's important. "If you are following 10 key economists on Twitter and some very intelligent blogs, you can quickly get to where you need to be: the stomach-churning question, 'OK, what do I do to move this story on?'" he said.
If you thought at the beginning of this piece that the internet and the ability to change stories even after they're live has made journalists less meticulous, you definitely had a reason to. But maybe that's not the case?
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Jamma 4 years ago
Tony is playing on the idea that it was a typo. There was no typo, but he's implying the paper would have been correct to call him/her a c*nt.
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Luka Verheijen 4 years ago
Considering what governments have been doing lately, I wouldn't be surprised
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
The guardian, who supported the wacko Corbyn, but calls Boris' leadership a "cult"
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Calypso poet 4 years ago
To prove she's not tiny? No one wants a short female attorney, I guess.
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Kari Panda 4 years ago
Might have been a translation error. 'Schwanz' can mean 'tail' as well as 'dong'.
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Who would have thought they'd leave the penis of a Lego animal...
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
This is my favorite. "sows and" is audibly quite similar to 'thousand'. I for one would want to go take a picture if I was the reporter assigned to the case and someone told me 30,000 animals were floating downstream.
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Surely a sow is a female pig and therefore the phrasing was unnecessary?
littlesaresare 4 years ago
Also my thoughts. "Sows and pigs" is a very strange thing to say. "Sows and boars" or just "pigs" makes a lot more sense.
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Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
And at no point the journalist or editor went "hang on a minute . . . " and double checked
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
The next editor's note said that he was actually an interior designer who also had a sidejob in the Bureau of democracy, Human Rights and Labor, because they didn't have enough work to employ him full time.
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Jeremy Dao 4 years ago
Tony Soprano : [over the phone] The guy you're looking for is an ex-commando! He killed sixteen Chechen rebels single-handed![...]He was with the Interior Ministry. Guy's some kind of Russian green beret. Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [turning to Christopher] You're not gonna believe this. He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. The guy was an interior decorator. Christopher Moltisanti : His house looked like s**t.
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
"The blues isn't about feeling better. It's about making other people feel WORSE"- Bleeding Gums Murphy, Lisa Simpson's tenorist hero.
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
But he would "date" both of them. As he proudly stated in public.
SomePeopleCallMeMaurice 4 years ago
As he has himself said, if she wasn’t his daughter, he’d be dating her! So…
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago (edited)
TIL that sometimes the internet rabbit-hole takes you to the weirdest places. I''m also ambidextrous so I wanted to know more about the pitcher. The last name Venditte was changed at US immigration from Venditti. The Venditti name originated in the papal states as the supposed illegitimate children of Pope Benedict IX. They have a family crest and everything. That's a long way from a guy who can play ball under water.
Calypso poet 4 years ago
Thank You! I love it! Right down to that last sentence 😂
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Mazer 4 years ago
Bill Durham. Great movie, this reminds me of a scene in the movie ….In the baseball comedy Bull Durham, a mercurial pitching prospect nicknamed Nuke LaLoosh is shepherded toward stardom by his girlfriend, Annie, and his catcher, Crash. Nuke's career turns the corner when Annie advises wearing a garter under his uniform and breathing through his eye lids on the mound.
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Robert T 4 years ago
One of the Daily Sport's articles was accidentally published in the wrong paper, more like!
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Sylvanticx 4 years ago
And Cobain can you hear the spheres singing songs off Station To Station? And Alderaan's not far away, it's Californication
Load More Replies... Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
I miss the days where the press took their commitment to the truth seriously. A correction in the "New York Times" (and many other papers) used to be a major event because they would not print without multiple independent sources, fact checkers confirming, and a swarm of editors re-checking the article before one word made it to the page. They were so committed to accuracy, they'd fix a mistake almost 50 years later. No one can afford the staff to do that anymore.
Eglė Bukauskaitė 3 years ago
who else read it in old timey news reporter voice? Where every single word is hyped up
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
To many people the cement tastes better. Cilantro tastes like Palmolive dish soap to me.
Deutschland Mädchen 4 years ago
I'm afraid to ask if you know what cement tastes like.
Load More Replies... Ty Stratton-Quirk 4 years ago
"Dear, are you sure you made this correctly? It's awfully crunchy, and I don't think the chips have anything to do with it."
Pink Floydian Panda 4 years ago
You are so wrong about cilantro! Cilantro is bomb! Cilantro, onions, and garlic make any savory dish completely awesome. Never even heard of cilantro until I moved to Los Angeles, but now I use it in virtually every main dish.
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Vicky Z 4 years ago
I have a feeling that the article was not on page 8 and it was not on Monday🙄
Deutschland Mädchen 4 years ago
And probably wasn't in the sports section 🙃
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Vicky Z 4 years ago
When I'm trying to say "good morning" to a customer and accidentally I say "what the f**k do you want".😅😅
A B C 4 years ago
When I worked as a server, I once said "good luck" instead of "enjoy your meal" (translated as it was in a non-english speaking country, original sounded a little closer)
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KJ 4 years ago
"So what do you know about David Astor", "Absolutely nothing", "perfect, write an article about him!"
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
It's worse because it appears to be a review about his biography, which they clearly didn't read!
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Suz66 4 years ago
He is always dressed AND STILL is in appropriate sporting attire...so does that mean they buried him in the sporting attire?
Alex Boyd 4 years ago
I was confused at first too, but the obituary was for a different guy than the bowling priest.
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Robert T 4 years ago (edited)
Embarassing, but at least they used relatively safe test data. Imagine if they'd used one of their own children, or some made up child with a stock photo.
Wilf 4 years ago
I know it sounds really boring, but that's why people who work in data actually do this- if anything is a test set it needs to be immediately identifiable as such so it is isn't confused with the real data.
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Joe Reaves 4 years ago
And this is WHY their test messages are designed to be so clearly fictional, because there's always a chance someone will press the wrong button and make it live. So in a sense their precautions against mistakes worked.
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago (edited)
I will have you know that although that Caitlin Henderson and her friend Calum Robinson showed up to the prom in a golden carriage decorated with orchids and drawn by 8 white stallions, my daughter Deb Masterson was not envious when her father drove her there in our fully paid 2013 white Fiat Panda. Regards, MRS A.Masterson
Aria Whitaker 4 years ago
THIS. As I was reading, all I could think of was the teasing and extremely hard time the other kids will probably give her daughter for having such an insufferable mom. Poor thing.
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Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
While there are certainly issues in places in the UK where goats are allowed to wander loose and not everyone appreciates this, I'm not convinced that two million people a year are killed by them
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Aria Whitaker 4 years ago (edited)
Meh, this is much milder than some of the others. I mean, they could be Married and have a son, easily. Plenty of families that have two dads out there. This seems a bit out of place with the rest of these, which are obvious, funny mess-ups.
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Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
Again - why was there no point at which the journalist or the editor thought "wait . . . what"?
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Sylvanticx 4 years ago
i googled it! it replaces the term millenial with the term snake peoople. i installed it. i love it allready. millennial millennial millennial
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Vicky Z 4 years ago
Wtf??? What sick mind thought and wrote all of these???? They should write a horror movie instead! Or maybe not!
Joe Reaves 4 years ago
It's from Viz, it's fully inline with what you'd expect.
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
I'm Sure Lulu wouldn't have objected to collaborate with Lou Reed and Metallica.
Becky Samuel 4 years ago
Meh. The Metro wouldn't know 'accuracy' if it ran up and bit them on the åss.
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Forrest McCanless 4 years ago
My favorite that I actually saw was an Asheville, NC paper article on "Communist Bob Terrell . . ." corrected to "Columnist Bob Terrell . . ." I knew Bob and traveled with him at the time - he was their writer!
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Vicky Z 4 years ago (edited)
Many newspapers were treating her horribly and had to change policy after her passing.... that's disgusting and deep hypocrisy indeed!
Joe Reaves 4 years ago
Which is why the Private Eye Daily Gnome editorial was so clever. They're usually spot on with their satire.
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Where did the word sober appear in this sentence? "Sober Alex Salmond" or "urged to stay sober" or "sober independence debate".
lara 4 years ago
According to the above article they REMOVED the word sober.
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What do you think ?
Roman Hans 4 years ago
I had a favorite from the NY Times that went something like this: “We apologize for writing that noted attorney F. Lee Bailey like to relax in ballet slippers. The article should have said he likes to relax in Bally slippers.” (It’s a posh Italian brand.)
Arthur Waite 4 years ago
from long ago - in the Globe: "we must issue a correction to yesterday's article on the Police, when we stated that Constable Harris was a 'defective on the Police force'. What we meant to say was 'a detective on the Police farce'.
Roman Hans 4 years ago
I had a favorite from the NY Times that went something like this: “We apologize for writing that noted attorney F. Lee Bailey like to relax in ballet slippers. The article should have said he likes to relax in Bally slippers.” (It’s a posh Italian brand.)
Arthur Waite 4 years ago
from long ago - in the Globe: "we must issue a correction to yesterday's article on the Police, when we stated that Constable Harris was a 'defective on the Police force'. What we meant to say was 'a detective on the Police farce'.
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