Showing posts with label oops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oops. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Quick! Is your car X'X" tall?

Good to see that signs at the Washington, D.C. Convention Center were proofread before they were hung.

The good news is, I'm sure this sign keeps all of the X-feet-tall cars from trying to park!

Friday, May 3, 2013

It's tough when they all look alike...

From kenneth in the (212):

As we've seen far too often, our 24-hour news cycle leads to unfortunate errors. Check out the photo that accompanies the story below.



I guess it's hard to tell Joan Collins and NBA player Jason Collins apart, huh?

It's almost as egregious as the closed captioning service used by local Fox affiliate KDFW a few weeks ago. During the manhunt for Boston bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev, the service captioned the suspect as "19-year-old Zooey Deschanel."



"Whoa! Epic closed captioning FAIL!" Deschanel tweeted when she saw the screenshot. The blunder was the fault of Caption Solution, a Kansas-based company that provides real-time closed captioning services to local TV stations. The company's president, Kala Patterson, issued an apology, as the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. Gawker says it was the work of a "rogue employee."

Anyone who thinks proofreading and fact-checking are dying skills, I believe a change is gonna come.

Monday, April 22, 2013

You think YOU'RE having a bad day at work??

The first day at a new job is always stressful. You don't know what you should be doing, you feel a little out of sorts, and no matter how excited you are about your new opportunity, it takes a while for you to get completely acclimated.

Well, let's hope you never have a first day on the job like A.J. Clemente did. He was all set to make his debut as one of the weekend anchors of the NBC affiliate in North Dakota, when something caused him to utter a few newsworthy, but inappropriate words. (Listen carefully to the start of the broadcast.) Clearly, his co-anchor heard it, as did everyone else.

Initially, the network suspended Clemente for the incident, but sadly, he's since been fired. It just goes to show you how important it is to keep your cool at all times. (And hopefully A.J. will land on his feet, and remember to treat every microphone like a live microphone!)