A good correction

A friend sent me this enjoyable correction. I wonder how old the editors who missed this are...

http://www.courant.com/news/corrections/

 

I know everybody makes mistakes (lord knows I've made my share and then some) but that should be a pretty common piece of pop culture knowledge.

 

Probably just a Sinclair Lewis fan on the desk.

 

The editors must be pretty damn old considering Aerosmith is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and their debut album came out in 1973.

 

Dream on.

 

This is one I heard about a few weeks ago from the NYT.
I don't remember the specifics, but the correction said that the event they were writing about "will not be held on Feb. 30. It will be held in February."
The explanation said the writer wrote that the event would be held in February. 30. The desker goofed, forgetting that "30" meant the end of the story. Hiliarious.

 

Well, it would have made sense on a leap year ... oh, shi ...

 

Zing!

 

How many people here still use 30 in that way? I only see it in older colleagues, even though it's pretty easy to accidently chop a story when pasting from Word to e-mail or into the system.

 

Never have I used or seen this, aside from learning about it in J-school.

 

I end every story with 30, but I put it between dashes, and down two lines.

...Jones said.

-30-

 

A few years ago, Dallas Morning News ran a correction that read something like this.

"In yesterday's editions, Mary Louise Nobody was identified as a socialist. She is a socialite."