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  More Typos In Coverage of Tiger Woods Scandal

  48 readersThe Proofreader is trying to keep up with the women in the Tiger Woods scandal, but simply cannot. At the latest count, twelve women have allegedly had affairs with the golfing great. That's three more women since the last post. To counter the additional three women, the Proofreader has only found two additional mistakes, and

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  Missing Spaces, Letters and Extraneous Letters; Small Mistakes

  1763 readersBut they're mistakes, nevertheless. As the Proofreader continues cleaning off his desktop, he offers up a two-for-one Thanksgiving post. As you can see in the highlighted screen shot below, this August 18th story in The New York Times about Brett Favre...

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  Bad Spelling In TVNewser Headline

  1389 readersIt's a rather boring blog that covers the rather boring topic of television news. But just because it's a blog and it's steeped in boredom doesn't mean TVNewser is exempt from employing adequate proofreading practices. Still, an apparent lapse in proof...

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  Mistake In Madoff Coverage

  1072 readersNo, the Proofreader is not dead. And no, pro journalists haven't stopped making printed mistakes that shouldn't have been made. The Proofreader was just too busy the last few weeks to provide adequate attention to the blog and to the mistakes that have...

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  Minor Typos In Slate Article about Tiger Woods/Salahi Scandals

  1274 readersThe Tiger Woods and Salahi Whitehouse party-crashing scandals are two stories that, like a certain credit card company slogan, defiantly refuse to go away. Thus, the more that's written about them, the greater the likelihood of a copy mistake. Behold two minor typos in a story on Slate (that married the two scandals in an

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  Minor Typos In Slate Article about Tiger Woods/Salahi Scandals

  27 readersThe Tiger Woods and Salahi Whitehouse party-crashing scandals are two stories that, like a certain credit card company slogan, defiantly refuse to go away. Thus, the more that's written about them, the greater the likelihood of a copy mistake. Behold two minor typos in a story on Slate (that married the two scandals in an

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  Noble Cause Debased By Ignoble Proofreading Failure

  1189 readersWow! This mistake has to be a colossal embarrassment for ReMIND.org, an initiative by the Bob Woodruff Foundation. (Bob Woodruff, you'll remember, is an ABC News journalist who suffered near fatal head injuries four years ago while covering the war in Iraq.) In an attempt to re-brand the "support our troops" phrase as something more

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  Noble Cause Debased By Ignoble Proofreading Failure

  46 readersWow! This mistake has to be a colossal embarrassment for ReMIND.org, an initiative by the Bob Woodruff Foundation. (Bob Woodruff, you'll remember, is an ABC News journalist who suffered near fatal head injuries four years ago while covering the war in Iraq.) In an attempt to re-brand the "support our troops" phrase as something more

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  S.I. Makes Error In Baseball Story

  1423 readersAlmost a month ago, reader Slapinions e-mailed the Proofreader and stated, ""I found an error in the following S.I. article" about Nick Johnson returning to the New York Yankees. "I thought maybe you'd enjoy it," Slapinions concluded. Well, Slapinions, the Proofreader never enjoys seeing foolish mistakes like this one, especially when it was made by a

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  S.I. Makes Error In Baseball Story

  46 readersAlmost a month ago, reader Slapinions e-mailed the Proofreader and stated, ""I found an error in the following S.I. article" about Nick Johnson returning to the New York Yankees. "I thought maybe you'd enjoy it," Slapinions concluded. Well, Slapinions, the Proofreader never enjoys seeing foolish mistakes like this one, especially when it was made by a