You really can’t make this stuff up, nor would you want to……

http://www.wane.com/dpp/news/indiana/billboard-reads-pubic-instead-of-public/

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WANE/WSBT) – An embarrassing billboard spelling error on a sign meant to tout South Bend schools has been pulled.

The billboard is a digital one near the intersection of State Road 23 and Ironwood in South Bend. It went up on Thursday and was pulled Monday morning.

The billboard encouraged people to go to “southbendon.com” to check out the “15 best things about our PUBIC schools.” Obviously it was supposed to say “public”, but the “l” was left out.

Lee MacMillan said his wife first spotted it on Saturday.

“She got home and said ‘I can’t believe it said what I think it said,’ so we were out driving around yesterday and sure enough, it had that typo in it, so we took a pic and the rest is history as they say,” said Lee MacMillan.

The president of a company called “the Blue Waters Group” told WSBT-TV the mistake was not made by the city or the schools.  He said the ad was proofed by 4 people and the typo got by all of them.

The company is under contract with the City of South Bend thru the the redevelopment commission to do work that promotes the city.

CNN.com article on May 3, 2010

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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!

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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