It's terrible, tragic and sometimes really funny when those of us in the media make a blunder. It's easy to do on the radio. Just get your mind in a higher gear then your mouth and presto you are tounge tied and sound like a blithering idiot in front of thousands of people.
You've seen the TV shows based on mistakes. We all watch and laugh at the poor person who made a fool of themself. Yet it's not just radio and TV folks that manufacture flubs. Writers do it as well.
This correction ran in the Denver Daily News on July 27:
The Denver Daily News would like to offer a sincere apology for a typo in Wednesday's Town Talk regarding New Jersey's proposal to ban smoking in automobiles. It was not the author's intention to call New Jersey 'Jew Jersey.'
Why am I laughing?
Of course there was that whole Newsweek thing that had even the White House seeing red. You know the story about the Koran being flushed. Then Newsweek backed off and said they could not prove it ever took place. That little blunder sparked riots that killed at least 15 people.
That one is not funny.
But in November Reuters reported about the recall of "beef panties."
From the Dallas Morning News:
Norma Adams-Wade's June 15 column incorrectly called Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk a socialist. She is a socialite.
From the New York Times:
An obituary of the civil rights leader James Forman yesterday misstated a word in describing his call, in 1969, for reparations to be paid by Protestant and Jewish groups for the crimes of slavery. Mr. Forman asked for $500 million for crimes perpetrated against generations of blacks, not "by" them.
There is much more but I have to speel cheak this befor I post it.........
Regret the Error
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