Comments on: Regret the Tour: A visit to the Newseum

By: Noticias GL » Erratas legendarias

Noticias GL » Erratas legendarias — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:54:35 +0000

[...] autor de Regret the Error se ha dado una vuelta por el Newseum, el museo dedicado al periodismo que tuvo la feliz idea de decorar los baños con [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:41:13 +0000

Joshua: The innocent interpretation becomes clear on learning The Oxford Mail headline was a typo. It was supposed to read “Churchill in Bed With Cold.”

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:40:46 +0000

Sterling: What was the “innocent” interpretation of the Oxford Mail headline?

By: Tim Minogue

Tim Minogue — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:26:16 +0000

One of my favourite — completely accurate — headlines, was in a local paper in Devon, circa 1978, on a story about a man caught stealing from a butchers shop:

Bulge in
trousers
was pound
of sausages,
court told

By: Sterling Soderlind

Sterling Soderlind — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:22:27 +0000

Correction on my earlier post: I think the “Churchill coed” headline was in the Oxford Mail–not Oxford Gazette.

By: Sterling Soderlind

Sterling Soderlind — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:41:09 +0000

I attended college in England and recall this headline in, I believe, the Oxford Gazette: “Churchill in Bed With Coed”. I don’t think it brought snickers to Brit readers since “coed” was not in their slang vocabulary–at least in the early 1950s.

By: Mike Lange

Mike Lange — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:23:39 +0000

My favorite headline back in my weekly newspaper editing days was “Prominent Waterville (Maine) doctor dies at 69.”

I clipped it out and pasted it up in the production room with a note: What a way to go!

By: Craig Silverman

Craig Silverman — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:28:20 +0000

Yes, that’s my Canadian educational background coming through. We love our “u”s and “re”s. Do me a favour and count me amoung the forgiven.

By: Mervin Block

Mervin Block — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:23:56 +0000

In this country, “theater” is not spelled “theatre.” “Theatre” is spelled that way in England and in The New Yorker.

By: A night at the Press Club : CRAIG SILVERMAN

A night at the Press Club : CRAIG SILVERMAN — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:11:54 +0000

[...] in Washington on Monday. I spent the morning at the Newseum, and you can read my report about it here. I also had lunch with Slate’s Jack [...]