From the online-only version of the newspaper at which I once so happily toiled, this sentence:
The King County Sheriff’s Office has released more information on the man who stubbled of the woods early Tuesday near North Bend.
Anybody could write stubbled instead of stumbled, but in the old world, such goofs were far less likely to appear, thanks to copy editors. Readers now serve that role, but at the PI, the writers don’t seem to notice. The story posted at 12:54 p.m. Tuesday. The first correction came in at 2:08. It’s now Wednesday morning, and nobody has changed “stubbled of” to “stumbled out of.”
Here’s the comment thread:
(1) Stubbled? And on the home page, “Brainbridge” and “Bellevue make arrest in homicide”???
Didn’t you guys keep any copy editors around?(2) Didn’t you know? All the copy editors were laid off. Ouch.
(3) I can’t weight until the staph reproters start taking there owen pitchers.
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