Posted on 04/07/2009 1:45:20 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
PROVO, Utah (AP) - Thousands of issues of Brigham Young University's student newspaper were pulled from newsstands because a front-page photo caption misidentified leaders of the Mormon church as apostates instead of apostles.
An apostate is a person who has abandoned religious faith, principles or a cause.
The photo in The Daily Universe on Monday was of members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, a governing body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at the weekend general conference.
The caption called the group the "Quorum of the Twelve Apostates." The mistake happened when a copy editor ran a computer spell check and apostate was suggested as the replacement for a misspelling of apostle.
"Unfortunately that's the one she clicked on," said Rich Evans, the paper's editorial manager. "It still should have been caught by two more levels of review after that, but again with deadline looming, the worst possible thing happened."
The typo was an honest mistake, said Carri Jenkins, spokeswoman for church-owned BYU. She said most of the 18,000 copies of the student paper were retrieved Monday morning and replaced with 10,000 corrected copies later in the day.
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Ummm-hmmmm.
Yeah. Sure.
Doh! Always spell check your spell checker
It does seem odd that a student at Brigham Young wouldn’t know how to spell “Apostles.” But typos happen.
Ooops..., they made a “mistake” that actually turned out right! :-)
“Quorum of the Twelve Apostates.”
You can’t buy this kind of PR with money.
God works in mysterious ways....
He likely didn’t type the word “apostate”.
The likely explanation is that there was a typographical error in the word “Apostles” (maybe Apostels or whatever), and that he selected the wrong word during spellcheck —because, I assume that “Apostles” and “Apostate” would both be possible matches.
SnakeDoc
The Wicked Bible, sometimes called The Adulterous Bible or The Sinners' Bible is a term referring to the Bible published in 1631 by Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, the royal printers in London, which was meant to be a reprint of the King James Bible. The name is derived from the compositors' mistake: in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:14) the word not in the sentence Thou shalt not commit adultery was omitted. This blunder was spread in a number of copies.
probably still more accurate than the NY Times
Some one let the truth slip out......Then had to correct it........
Apostatles is about the only way I can get apostate for a butchering of apostle.
It's not at all odd that Microsoft (and its spellchecker) wouldn't know the word.
OOOOOOOOPS!! - I hope that one doesn’t make it to Jay Leno’s list of dumb newspaper headlines.
Except that he wouldn’t know what an apostate is.
Freudian, for sure.
LOL!
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