[Mishmash] When Wrong Is Right

[Hugh Gigante]

This morning our local paper had a headline with "see page A4".

Only the connected story was on page A6.

My guess is nobody has the title "editor".

Hugh\


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Brown" <djbrown at tpg.com.au>
To: "'Mishmash'" <mishmash at mishmash.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Mishmash] When Wrong Is Right


> If our papers did that they would go broke.
>
> Cheers
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mishmash-bounces at mishmash.net [mailto:mishmash-bounces at mishmash.net]
> On Behalf Of Hugh Gigante
> Sent: Sunday, 2 December 2007 8:34 PM
> To: Mishmash
> Subject: [Mishmash] When Wrong Is Right
>
> When I was a teenager, one of the local newspapers had a tradition . . .
> they would pay anyone who found a spelling or grammatical error in the
> newspaper $5.00. And that was the New York Daily News . . . not known as a
> literary leader!
>
> The other day I was sitting in a hotel room watching the Weather Channel,
> and they reported (complete with graphics) that 37% of the state of 
> Georgia
> was under "Extreme Droute" conditions, and 77% under "Severe" droute
> conditions.
>
> When I asked through email what part of North Carolina had been annexed by
> Georgia to make up the additional 14%, the first response I got was from
> someone titling themselves as a producer. She asked me to better explain 
> my
> question. When I did the response was that those were the actual numbers 
> as
> reported by the state, and they (the weather channel) was not responsible
> for inaccurate information it reported.
>
> Makes one want to vote for a law requiring an IQ test before letting 
> people
> breed!
>
> Hugh
>
>
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