We do enjoy a good newspaper headline mistake around here, from “analize the analytics” to “Iowa wary of Frazier” to Packers’ center Ringo Starr to Aaron/Keith Hernandez to “Jack off to promising start.” And the latest one comes from the Jamestown, New York Post-Journal, which ran a headline (for an AP story with an appropriate headline) of “Julia Roberts finds life and her holes get better with age” Saturday:
Never dictate the headline over the phone. (h/t @NeilMcMahon) pic.twitter.com/0kPUGxQ2sd
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) December 10, 2018
Are we not doing phrasing anymore? At least they did later correct it:
https://twitter.com/LorumIpsum/status/1072163617515155456
Now that’s a correction. Hopefully the Post-Journal will do a little more proofreading next time.
[Mark Harris on Twitter]
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Andrew Bucholtz has been covering sports media for Awful Announcing since 2012. He is also a staff writer for The Comeback. His previous work includes time at Yahoo! Sports Canada and Black Press.