Kentucky Newspaper Retracts "Major Error" in Police Story

[Seventy2002]

KENTUCKY NEWSPAPER RETRACTS ‘MAJOR ERROR’ IN POLICE STORY

I was a journalist, many years ago. Back then, a quote like that would have hit a wall at the copy desk, with editors screaming "WTF???" and calling the sheriff to confirm he really said that.

[EmmaPeel]

KENTUCKY NEWSPAPER RETRACTS ‘MAJOR ERROR’ IN POLICE STORY

I was a journalist, many years ago. Back then, a quote like that would have hit a wall at the copy desk, with editors screaming "WTF???" and calling the sheriff to confirm he really said that.

Here Here.

[just joe]

Not surprised. Our local "journalists" can't even be bothered to use spell check. And I think the news copy editor is a high school freshman who works on stories for extra credit as he/she has time.

[CCCSD]

-30- used to mean something...

[Ink Stained Wretch]

KENTUCKY NEWSPAPER RETRACTS ‘MAJOR ERROR’ IN POLICE STORY

I was a journalist, many years ago. Back then, a quote like that would have hit a wall at the copy desk, with editors screaming "WTF???" and calling the sheriff to confirm he really said that.

It was copy editors who did this. That makes it even worse.

This isn't the first time that people have screwed around and did stupid things like this trying to have some warped "fun," it ended up in the paper, and they ended up out the door ... as they damn well should have. In-freaking-excusable. You don't play in these situations. You take it seriously.

The problem is that nobody seems to take anything seriously anymore.

[btfp]

That's cause everyone is a journalist today. harry the plumber and dave the electrician ....gimmie a break..

[JasperST]

I heard a good line in a Humphrey Bogart movie about a newspaper company a few days ago. A guys says "a reporter is any eyewitness, a journalist is a hero". I think they all eager to be heroes these days.

[bsd13]

That's cause everyone is a journalist today. harry the plumber and dave the electrician ....gimmie a break..

Yup, any monkey with a keyboard and a twitter account can call themselves a journalist these days.

[Aerohead]

Great way to throw away a career.

[chip4]

If I were the Sheriff, I would sue the **** out of the journalists.

[RR_Security]

Not surprised. Our local "journalists" can't even be bothered to use spell check.

I think the geniuses at our local weekly paper rely on spell-check too much. That leads to stupid stuff like a recent article about how two mopes "prayed" on an elderly victim.

And I think the news copy editor is a high school freshman who works on stories for extra credit as he/she has time.

Or maybe copy editors need to be tested for reading level, given regular eye exams, and take random urine tests. Because drugs're bad, m'kay. no-no-no.gif