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Did Indo Make Typo in Headline re IRA announcement today?

  • 29-07-2005 9:21pm
    #1
    wrafter
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    I'm looking at the BBC site here, and on image six of six at the following link we can clearly see a typo on the Indo heading, which would be a bit of a boo-boo at the best of times, but on such a day, with such an announcement... somewhat embarrassing.

    However, perhaps this was a photo taken while the paper was being compiled? Or there's some other explanation?

    See here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4727161.stm

    Contrast this with the PDF of today's issue on the Independent site and the typo is no longer: http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/frontpagepdfs/2005/12800.pdf

    Anyone got a physical copy to refer to?


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  • #2
    Lump
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    Typo?

    John


  • #3
    wrafter
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    See here.


  • #4
    Lump
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    What the 4.0pm? That's not a typo..... They left out a 0.

    John


  • #5
    wrafter
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    Well then let me clarify - there is an error.


  • #6
    Snickers Man
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    Go on then, Hitchcock. End the suspense because I can't see WTF you're talking about :confused:


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  • #7
    Chalk
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    Snickers Man wrote:
    Go on then, Hitchcock. End the suspense because I can't see WTF you're talking about :confused:
    you know when your telling the time.
    its either 4pm or 4.00pm
    the indo wrote 4.0pm
    so thats the wrong way to tell the time.


  • #8
    parasite
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    someone should be hung for that !


  • #9
    Loobz
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    parasite wrote:
    someone should be hung for that !

    I agree. At 4.00pm. :p


  • #10
    28064212
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    There's nothing technically wrong with writing 4.0pm. It's a matter of style.

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  • #11
    Flukey
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    Hang them at 16:01. :)


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  • #12
    father_ted9t9
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    The papers send tga images to all news organisations who request them in the middle of the night b4 they go to print for inclusion in bulletins and online editions(EG. thats how sky news get the images of the next days papers to show on late bulletins). It was a simple mistake by someone who was probably under pressure to get it shown asap. Build a bridge...Get over it


  • #13
    Snickers Man
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    Chalk wrote:
    you know when your telling the time.

    Well spot the howling littoral right there.

    You clearly don't know you're arse from your elbow.

    (See what I did there?)

    Chalk wrote:
    its either 4pm or 4.00pm
    the indo wrote 4.0pm
    so thats the wrong way to tell the time.


  • #14
    Branoic
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    28064212 wrote:
    There's nothing technically wrong with writing 4.0pm. It's a matter of style.

    "Style" for a newspaper is a very rigidly defined thing. Time is either 4.00pm or 4pm. Leaving out one zero is definitely an error.


  • #15
    wrafter
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    father_ted9t9 wrote:
    The papers send tga images to all news organisations who request them in the middle of the night b4 they go to print for inclusion in bulletins and online editions

    I thought this was probably the case thus my request back on July 29th for someone to compare it to the defacto print edition.
    wrafter wrote:
    However, perhaps this was a photo taken while the paper was being compiled?

    Tell me, what does the term acronym "tga" refer to?


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