LOL news typo...

[enyawd72]

What a great way to start Friday morning!


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The Hulkster doesn't just defeat his enemies, he DETEATS them!

I'm gonna twist your nipples right off brother!

[palitoy]

This is what you get when you don't pay for Journalists.

[comicmike]

That *IS* funny!!

[cjefferys]

This is what you get when you don't pay for Journalists.

Yep pretty much, I'm seeing more of this kind of thing recently. Then again, I'm constantly finding typos in our local papers, it's like the art of proofreading doesn't even exist anymore...

[emeraldknight47]

Yep pretty much, I'm seeing more of this kind of thing recently. Then again, I'm constantly finding typos in our local papers, it's like the art of proofreading doesn't even exist anymore...

I work in the "on demand" print industry and, unfortunately, at least as far as the company I work for goes, the idea of proofreading is one that has been abandoned by the print house in favor of faster and faster turnaround times. The burden of proof reading is now on the customer who submits the file/files, not on those of us who are preflighting the jobs. Granted, if we find a totally glaring typo, say something in a headline or in very large type, we usually kick it back to the customer or charge said customer a hefty fee to fix it.

Same goes with graphics, unfortunately. More companies are relying on in-house "designers" (most of whom couldn't design their way out of a box) rather than pay an ad agency or a professional designer to create artwork. As a result, on a daily basis, I see anywhere from 10 to 20 print jobs come down the line that have very low resolution graphics (usually screenshots from a computer or, in the case of stock art or photography, preview images downloaded from an image bank's website, still with their watermark in place) that are plopped haphazardly onto a page with little concern for image quality, copyright infringement or just basic, clean design.

Print houses like the one I currently work for, are sort of "meatball surgeons" of the printing world and I'm sad to say more and more of the industry is heading down a similar path. The whole paradigm of printing has shifted to what I like to refer to as "drive-thru printing" where you drop your roughs off at the first window and pick up the finished piece/pieces at the second window. Several of the other folks I know who are in the printing field are encountering similar situations and, because the customer has started telling the printer when they're getting their jobs rather than vice-versa, the "crap in, crap out" ethic for print houses is growing.

In short, a lot of what comes through not only the company I work for, but also what goes through other printers, as well, are turds and you can't really polish a turd.

[PNGwynne]

Yep pretty much, I'm seeing more of this kind of thing recently. Then again, I'm constantly finding typos in our local papers, it's like the art of proofreading doesn't even exist anymore...

Indeed it seems it doesn't, the slap-dash approach seems to have rippled in broadening waves from the internet to other venues as emeraldknight notes. I've been a member of the Folio Society for many years and even their editions have contained errors.