[MJY1288]

Get over it! :-)

[decal]

Boy's got a future ahead of him: Headline writer for the NYSlimes - it's not as though THEY have any journalistic standards...

[ncountylee]

Those poor girls, but it's so funny. LOL

[Flux Capacitor]

What's the big deal? I thought joining the girls' soccer team in the first place amounted to coming out as a lesbian.

-Dan

[Michael.SF.]

But, I thought it was OK to be a Lesbian. Why are they so mad?

[Jaysun]

Huh, that's queer. Isn't lesbianism praised, encouraged, rewarded, and respected today?

[taxesareforever]

So, scoring and coming out of the closet don't go together?Since when?

[RandallFlagg]

Who here still remembers the, "Brainwashedchild.jpg" incident at the Houston Chronicle?

[RandallFlagg]

[martin_fierro]

The copy editor, who was not identified

From their website:

    * Paul Steinmetz Editor (203) 731-3361 editor@newstimes.com
    * Paul Sussman Managing Editor/News (203) 731-3369 psussman@newstimes.com
    * Walt VanDusen Managing Editor/Prod. (203) 731-3363 wvandusen@newstimes.com
    * Valerie Roth Special Sections Editor (203) 731-3370 vroth@newstimes.com
    * Kevin Hutson Production Editor (203) 731-3347 khutson@newstimes.com
    * Tony Whyte Night Editor (203) 731-3368 twhyte@newstimes.com
    * Jason Sonski Sports Editor (203) 731-3377 sports@newstimes.com

[BallyBill]

Big deal, journalism has been a joke for years. He takes his job as serious as Dan Rather did.

[OldFriend]

What a despicable thing to do.

But I thought it was only the internet that had no editors or filters and the print and electronic media was safe from such abuse.

[manwiththehands]

HOMOPHOBES!

[Jhensy]

As a newspaper veteran of 20 years, I can tell you these things happen once in a while by bored workplace flunkies. A fire-able offense, for sure, but not that uncommon.

Two incidents at places I've worked:

1. For a society page, what was supposed to be picture of some members of a womens club was instead a picture of four crash-test dummies, placed on the page by a joking paste-up artist who then forgot to remove it after he got the laugh from the staff. Fired the next day.

2. In the classifieds, an ad for a waterfront property was supposed to highlight its "50-ft. dock"... but it came out, shall we say, misspelled. And it wasn't "d*ck", either.

No one was fired over this because it couldn't be determined to be a deliberate typo, but knowing some of the jokers at that place...

[dighton]

This Double Indemnity, as Wilder called it, was something that derived from an old newspaper story. Back at the dawn of time, back even before Arthur Krock first arrived in Washington to cover the administration of William Howard Taft for the Louisville Times, a terrible thing happened at the printing plant in Louisville. There was an ad in the paper for women’s underwear, as Krock recounted the episode to a young writer [James M. Cain] on the New York World, and it was supposed to say, “If these sizes are too big, take a tuck in them.” But as Krock was reading through that night’s first edition, he saw that someone had changed the first letter in the word “tuck.”

Krock ordered the ad changed for the next edition, then summoned the printer and demanded an explanation. The printer couldn’t provide one. He couldn’t understand how such an embarrassing accident could have happened. Krock remained suspicious. Two days later, he went and interrogated the printer again, in the interrogatory manner that would daunt future presidents and secretaries of state when Krock became Washington bureau chief for the New York Times. The printer confessed. “Mr. Krock,” he said, trying finally to explain, “you do nothing your whole life but watch for something like that happening, so as to head it off, and then, Mr. Krock, you catch yourself watching for chances to do it.”

-- Otto Friedrich, City of Nets.

[edwin hubble]

Goofing around by headline writers is universal.

the most famous incident happened when Carter was president.

---

On March 15, 1980, the Boston Globe ran an editorial with a fake headline.

There was nothing exceptional about the editorial except the headline: "Mush from the Wimp".

In 1984, the late Kirk Scharfenberg acknowledged that he was the author of the headline. "I meant it as an in-house joke and thought it would be removed before publication," he wrote. "It appeared in 161,000 copies of the Globe the next day."