CNN.com article on May 3, 2010

Showing 13th Paragraph of CNN.com article

The headline of this article featured on the front page of CNN.com caught my eye, just as a headline should.   But as I read it,  I couldn’t believe my eyes.  In the 13th paragraph the words “they” and “they’s” show up where the words “the” and “they’re” should have been.   They’s???

Error:

West Valley police say Josh Powell is they only person they’s looking at, but they are not calling him a suspect in his wife’s disappearance. They say they have no physical evidence of foul play.

Correction:

West Valley police say Josh Powell is the only person they’re looking at, but they are not calling him a suspect in his wife’s disappearance. They say they have no physical evidence of foul play.

I’ve contacted CNN.com for remedial action.  Let’ see if the Copy Desk are quick to respond.

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At 12 noon EDT, CNN.com updated the article and included the corrections.   Nice turnaround, guys!

Showing CNN.com's correction in the 13th paragraph

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LA Times "crediblity"

This story broke a couple days ago but we wanted to wait for the dust to settle. It caught like wildfire after a post by LAObserved which then was picked up by Gawker.

You can clearly see the typo in the circled image.

We’ve included LA Weekly’s response to the typo shortly after.

To be fair to the LA Times, they were quick to apologize to their readers and acknowledged the typo.

Below is a comment by LA Times Deirdre Edgar who tweeted the following on the same day.

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LATreadersrep

Yes, @latimes misspelled “credibility” on the front page today. And yes, we realize that isn’t good for our credibility. Sorry, readers.

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LA Weekly

Hadron Collider

This typo occurred about a month ago. Luckily it was fixed pretty quickly. Unfortunately for them, we have a screen shot before the fix. The title says it all.

What exactly are they researching?