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Don’t Automatically Blame the Reporter for a Headline Error

Writers make mistakes. That’s why we have editors. But editors make mistakes, too. I don’t know the circumstances behind this particular error, but chances are that the reporter did not write this headline — that would have been the job of whatever local editor decided to reprint the AP story.

 

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    Dennis G. Jerz
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    9 years ago

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