Sunday 17 June 2012

Daily Examiner subeditors asleep at their desks

Want further evidence that APN's Daily Examiner is is in a rush to get to the bottom of the barrel? The schoolboy howlers shown below appeared on the paper's front page on Friday and its website, respectively.

Sample 1:


Sample 2:


However, to the Examiner's credit, it still has a bit to go before it hits rock bottom. When we see it printing things such as those included in a piece in The Melbourne Argus on 6 July 1940 (see below) we'll know it's arrived at that destination.



Credit: The Melbourne Argus, 6/10/1940 courtesy of the National Library of Australia's Trove



1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Warf Street? Is that one down from Barf Road?