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Newspaper misspells its own name on front page
This Monday readers of New Hampshires Valley News were surprised to see the paper's name spelled "Valley Newss" on the front page masthead.The following day the newspaper, which covers the Upper Valley area straddling New Hampshire and Vermont, published an Editors Note acknowledging the error. "Oupes. We messsed upp."Readers may have noticed that the Valley News misspelled its own name on yesterdays front page, it read. Given that we routinely call on other institutions to hold themselves accountable for the mistakes, let us say for the record: We sure feel silly. "Knot to mentyon stupppid." The misspelling, which is still visible in the archive section of the newspapers website , has already been touted as favourite for typo of the year by the Regret the Error blog, which monitors media mistakes. Posted by: Mike 2008-07-23 |
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