Always going to be hard to do worse than this one from a few years back…

http://i.imgur.com/BKtmz.jpg

Oh yeah, there should be a language warning for the link on my previous post.

Has anybody else noticed over the past two days the dropping of their traditional Times Bold font on the letters page and some headlines and its replacement with the more tabloid-style Verdana? CT preparing for the switch to being a tabloid from next March?

Reminds me of a few years back when The Australian referred to Iran as “a bastard state” then a few days later had to print a correction saying that they meant to say “a Baathist state”.

Trunking symbols said :

Reminds me of a few years back when The Australian referred to Iran as “a bastard state” then a few days later had to print a correction saying that they meant to say “a Baathist state”.

I have to make my own correction, I meant to say Iraq, not Iran.

Trunking symbols said :

Trunking symbols said :

Reminds me of a few years back when The Australian referred to Iran as “a bastard state” then a few days later had to print a correction saying that they meant to say “a Baathist state”.

I have to make my own correction, I meant to say Iraq, not Iran.

I ran, I ran so far away….

that article is 12 months old. I’m sure they’ve done celebrating.

muscledude_oz said :

Has anybody else noticed over the past two days the dropping of their traditional Times Bold font on the letters page and some headlines and its replacement with the more tabloid-style Verdana? CT preparing for the switch to being a tabloid from next March?

Verdana hey? Maybe preparations for a DIY Canberra Times you have to assemble yourself.

Not as good as this one:

http://jimromenesko.com/2012/07/21/editor-explains-butt-cracks-typo-in-los-angeles-times/

Slow news week is it JB? That article is from December 2011!

first we’d seen of it and it went around twitter yesterday

This year’s version has been doing the rounds on Facebook:

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/regret-the-error/197279/the-best-and-worst-media-errors-and-corrections-of-2012/

muscledude_oz said :

…tabloid-style Verdana?

lol