DFM bloodletting continues

Can you inagine the shit the Rockies beat writer is going to hear from all sides? Just when your credibility couldn't get lower and you couldn't be more embarrassed to be working at a particular compantly, the bar gets lowered.

I'd be more pissed at the mealy-mouthed bullshit "production error" excuse.

 

It was a production error, though, right?

 

The photogs must be really pissed, too.

 

I don't see how that foto made it on that page. Do the stadiums look "kinda similar?" (Both HOK designs) Perhaps if you squint - but I have to think there was a file name of Coors Field that isn't spelled anything like Citizen Bank Ballpark. And even THEN, with a photo that big, the press people would have said - wait our color must be way off because this looks more red than purple.
Which paper used an old foto of a player no longer on the team for a hockey preview section?

 

The Ultimate Visitors Guide to Coors Field

1. Fly to Philadelphia.

 

Can you imagine the fun the Rocky would have with this?
Sigh.

 

Pretty ballsy of @denverpost:

 

Maybe the Post did it on purpose to embarrass Alden.

 

And there's that pesky scoreboard that says "Phillies," as noted in another thread.

Years ago, there was a paper that was doing a cover story in lifestyles on skating and used a bunch of photos off the wire of girls skating. Unfortunately, no one notices until too late, the girls were the ones who, later the night the photos were taken, were tortured to death in their hotel room at Yosemite.

 

You can't just dial up a photo from the archives. You actually have to verify its authenticity. That should be obvious, especially in this era of far-removed design hubs, but the workload and pace probably had the designer moving too fast.

Now, of course, will come the corporate memo saying: "We must do whatever it takes to eliminate errors in print."

"These are exciting times for newspapers!"

 

That's what I don't get, as a copy editor/designer. If it was an archive photo that was, say, mislabeled and no one checked it, I could possibly see the error. But with it being a centerpiece story, how would an 11-year-old wire service photo get attached to the story/page?

And, you know, proofreading — aka some of the "fat" that's been cut out of budgets.