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NEWSPAPER ERRORS.....

A newspaper is a daily marvel, even a miracle. There are
1,730 of them published daily in the United States with a
combined circulation of nearly 62 million. Limitless
possibilities exist for error, human and mechanical. Add the
crushing pressure of deadlines, and it's surprising there
aren't more mistakes.

When goofs do occur, editors scurry to print corrections,
even though we often prefer the misprint to the corrected
version. Here just a few samples:

1. IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you are one of hundreds of
parachuting enthusiasts who bought our Easy Sky Diving book,
please make the following correction: on page 8, line 7, the
words "state zip code" should have read "pull rip cord."

2. It was incorrectly reported last Friday that today is
T-shirt Appreciation Day. In fact, it is actually Teacher
Appreciation Day.

3. There was a mistake in an item sent in two weeks ago
which stated that Ed Burnham entertained a party at crap
shooting. It should have been trap shooting.

4. Just to keep the record straight, it was the famous
Whistler's Mother, not Hitler's, that was exhibited. There
is nothing to be gained in trying to explain how this error
occurred.

5. Our newspaper carried the notice last week that Mr. Oscar
Hoffnagle is a defective on the police force. This was a
typographical error. Mr. Hoffnagle is, of course, a
detective on the police farce.

6. Yesterday we mistakenly reported that a talk was given by
a bottle-scared hero. We apologize for the error. We
obviously meant that the talk was given by a battle-scarred
hero.

7. The marriage of Miss Freda vanAmburg and Willie Branton,
which was announced in this paper a few weeks ago, was a
mistake which we wish to correct. NEWSPAPER ERRORS.....

A newspaper is a daily marvel, even a miracle. There are
1,730 of them published daily in the United States with a
combined circulation of nearly 62 million. Limitless
possibilities exist for error, human and mechanical. Add the
crushing pressure of deadlines, and it's surprising there
aren't more mistakes.

When goofs do occur, editors scurry to print corrections,
even though we often prefer the misprint to the corrected
version. Here just a few samples:

1. IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you are one of hundreds of
parachuting enthusiasts who bought our Easy Sky Diving book,
please make the following correction: on page 8, line 7, the
words "state zip code" should have read "pull rip cord."

2. It was incorrectly reported last Friday that today is
T-shirt Appreciation Day. In fact, it is actually Teacher
Appreciation Day.

3. There was a mistake in an item sent in two weeks ago
which stated that Ed Burnham entertained a party at crap
shooting. It should have been trap shooting.

4. Just to keep the record straight, it was the famous
Whistler's Mother, not Hitler's, that was exhibited. There
is nothing to be gained in trying to explain how this error
occurred.

5. Our newspaper carried the notice last week that Mr. Oscar
Hoffnagle is a defective on the police force. This was a
typographical error. Mr. Hoffnagle is, of course, a
detective on the police farce.

6. Yesterday we mistakenly reported that a talk was given by
a bottle-scared hero. We apologize for the error. We
obviously meant that the talk was given by a battle-scarred
hero.

7. The marriage of Miss Freda vanAmburg and Willie Branton,
which was announced in this paper a few weeks ago, was a
mistake which we wish to correct.

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