Yeesh.

Remember the reason newspapers are more reliable than newspapers is the editors. All that fact checking and error correction ensures they're more accurate.

I've been on the receiving end of some of the "editing" that goes on.

Even their own employees are not immune. Note Rhonda Graham's column today where she ends:

"Speaking of bad things happening, some last-minute editing bungled last week's column. It was about the return of allegiance to the 30-year mortgage as a result of the fallout from the subprime mortgage crisis. What slipped into print is too egregious to attempt to correct in the customary printed format."

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070809/OPINION12/708090321/1204/rss0501

Who do they have working over there?

The guy misspelled a word in a blog post. I must be missing the significance of this.

You are, Nels. He's assistant editor of the editorial pages and editorial writer of DE's largest newspaper. And the chances it's a mere typo are really small.

Ya'd think people in such positions would be extra careful, huh? Guess not.