A gracious reply. I know we miss something in every edition, even though we
proof every article, press release, letter, and advertisement at least three
times. Part of it is just human error, part of it is the rush and pressure of
putting something out on deadline.
I used to put jokes in the text to make the proof reader laugh - absurd
misspellings and multiple grammar gaffes. Well, one time something slipped
through. Last time I did that. One of my favorite newspaper gaffes, and I
still have it around the office somewhere, is the editorial headline that went
out in another paper: "Need Headline" I'm sure someone caught hell for
that.
-Mike Eldred
> Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 11:34:55 -0500
> From: qualitas.jack@gmail.com
> To: healeys@autox.team.net; mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Mgs] Hemmings Editor's Reply
>
> This is in part what he said.
>
> "You're right, of course, about the red and black ports on the dashboard --
> boy, have we gotten a lot of mail about that! The fault is mine, because I
> knew what they were for, but didn't catch that sentence on the proof. We
> owe thanks to all of the helpful readers who've taken the time to send us
> photos of the trouble light and the windshield defroster that use those
> ports."
>
> He also was aware the the Sunbeam confusion.
>
> Jack
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