The NZ Herald was proudly touting it's bevy of Qantas Media awards in Saturday's edition and on their website. Good thing the judges don't hand out the gongs for sub-editing, isn't it? On the front page of the same paper Northcote College was apparently put on "probabtion" for it's basketball recruitment scheme. In the awards article itself the Herald claimed to have beat
"allcomers", and on the same page (A3) discussed a survey of 18,000
"moythers", announced that "Aucklanders should be able to the washing dried" and left a double quote off the end of Miss World's comments.
Today in the online edition, Hezbollah gunmen have apparently started their
"withdrawl" from Beirut. Retreat with a Southern accent perhaps? Who can say?
Funnier (or is that sadder?) still, if you search the website for "probabtion", it asks
"Did you mean probation?". Probably, NZH, probably.
Still, it could be worse. They could outsource the editing to whoever does the captions for TV1's morning news. Now that would be truly dire.
