A strong contender for correction of the year from this week’s Kent Messenger, clarifying that a local woman whose neighbour found some drug paraphernalia in a local park was not a cleaner, as originally reported, but a “dust relocation technician.”
KM Group editorial director Ian Carter commented in a Tweet: “I don’t normally like seeing corrections in our papers, but am making an exception for this one.”
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Excellent! You can’t beat a bit of job description jargon.
Let’s all go and split hairs for a living.
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In answer to funniest correction of the year/decade/century, nothing will ever beat the Noah’s Ark correction, in which the Caerphilly Observer apologised for crediting Moses with building Noah’s Ark.
Stupidity on a biblical scale.
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Shame on the Caerphilly Observer. Any fool knows Noah’s Ark was built by John Brown’s on Clydeside.
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Lovely stuff. I went in search of the ‘30,000 pigs correction from a paper down under, and found a site with it. I include a link to the page as there are some other beauties on there, too:
http://www.listener.co.nz/culture/humour/the-internaut/ten-of-the-best-newspaper-corrections/
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