ABC News might want to invest in its knowledge of bland mid-2000s indie pop after its curious reading of Zooey Deschanel’s recent divorce. At least it works out for Ben Gibbard.
Local ABC affiliate WJLA made quite the typo in alerting its Twitter followers that the suspect in a Montgomery County shooting death had taken his own life.
Sure, a good portion of the public and critics seem to hate the design of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial.
The Washington Post may have discovered the best way to battle the public’s penchant for only reading the headlines of stories before moving on — just don’t bother changing the text of said headlines from stock placeholders.
The jokes write themselves. [Mike DeBonis]
DCist reader Jon in Brookland sent in this image of an odd-looking inspection sticker he received from the District government. He wanted to know if it might be a fake, since he’d read about the con artist who has been allegedly posing as a Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs inspector in several D.C. neighborhoods lately. Jon’s plumbers had also told him they’d already received a green “approved” sticker for the work they were doing…
DDOT workers were out putting the finishing touches on the contraflow bike lane on 15th Street NW today, installing the permanent plastic pylons that separate the line of parked cars from the new sidewalk-adjacent bike lane. But it looks like there are still a few wrinkles to get ironed out with the signage. DCist spotted this pretty large “typo” today: After we snapped this photo, we noticed Greater Greater Washington had spotted another spelling mistake…
We all make mistakes. But as this editor can firmly attest, we often rely on our most trusted commenters to save us from our small foibles. Apparently, so do the contributors at the Post’s D.C. Wire blog — DCist commenter extraordinaire and local blogger IMGoph spotted this gem on a post about yesterday’s gas leak at Thomas Elementary School in Northeast: Pointing out that schools do not, in fact, operate on a six-day schedule: another…
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/politics/Funny_Sad_Typo_on_Robert_Novak_Retirement_Story_on_NYTimes’; They’ve already fixed it, but the error above in the Associated Press story about Robert Novak’s immediate retirement was live on The New York Times web site for a short time earlier this afternoon. Yikes! The conservative columnist may be widely known as the “Prince of Darkness,” but brain tumors are certainly no laughing matter. Except, it turns out, when they lead to mistakes like this. Too soon?…
At the beginning of June, the Washington Times launched a fancy redesign of their web site to incorporate a lot of overdue Web 2.0 features, like 400,000 specialized news feeds by topic (neat) and a bunch of new video and audio features (sure, OK). They also moved their nearly nonexistent local coverage into the A section, which we hoped might mean a new emphasis on local news, but so far that hasn’t been the case….
