There must be ghosts running around in the Star-Advertiser press room on this fine Halloween.
What other explanation could there be for the colossal blooper in the top teaser planted above the fold right smack in the middle of the front page of today’s print edition of the S-A? To be accurate, the header is at least above the fold.
The headline has it completely reversed, since it refers to the massively pro-rail Pacific Resource Partnership, now well on its way to spending close to $4 million to defeat Cayetano’s anti-rail campaign.
Did I mention that this was right in the middle of the front page? This gives you a better idea of its placement.
How utterly depressing this must be for the staff who work hard every day to get the news into our hands. I wonder what sort of correction there will be tomorrow?
By the way, the Star-Advertiser is offering free access to its full online edition this week, so don’t be shy about checking it out.
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I don’t think this was a mistake, I mean above the fold? Come on, someone or many at SA are trying to make sure that the public will just see this headline and not read further. To me, this shows exactly what Cayetano has been saying, big money is buying this election. I sure hope the people of Honolulu will not fall for this deception.
good one, Tracey. mistakes do not actually exist in this twisted type of reality. everything is a conspiracy. construction workers own Honolulu’s only newspaper. be careful tonite, rail supporters might turn into vampires tonite and eat all yo’ tax money!!!! boooohaaaaahaaaahaaahaaaa
(Tropical Paranoia Gone Wild)
It might or might be a mistake. But it’s an extremely atypical mistake. Even high school student newspapers do not make a mistake like this.
Yes, it is funny, the idea of construction workers “owning” a local newspaper.
But as we see from Ian Lind’s Hawaii Monitor column this morning in Civil Beat, it is more disturbing than that.
The construction union labor unions in Hawaii seem to have been taken over by development corporations, with union members and the local newspapers are potentially puppets of wealthy contractors.
It is not like this in other societies where unions are powerful, like in western Europe, where trade unions are on the forefront of supporting health care and public education. When tradesmen push for big projects in Europe, it is new schools and hospitals. Not so in Hawaii, strangely enough.
“Even high school student newspapers do not make a mistake like this.”
my dear dude, but you are the one is making a grand mistake here. and you are going to have to admit it this time.
examples:
“Obama bin Laden is dead, but the ‘war on terror’ continues.”
“Missippi’s literacy program shows improvement”
“JFK Raps Fault-Finders in Nation”
This headline made the news on November 22, 1963 after JFK gave his speech in Dallas against opponents who “confuse rhetoric with reality.” Though the article was based on what JFK had expressed in his speech, the headline got it all wrong. Some newspapers even stated that before he even gave the speech, he was assassinated.
You are talking about a slight flaw in an obscure headline about an obscure speech JFK made almost 50 years ago.
You are providing evidence of just how rare slight mistakes are in headlines.
And the blooper in question in the SA is a whopper!
So the question stands: Is the SA incompetent or corrupt or both?
i immediately found 3 examples, dude.
question:
If I begin posting the other examples of weak headlines I found with a simple Google search, will you actually start making some sense in your comments? can you admit you were wrong?
Of course not! people hate doing that!!!! i shouldn’t waste my time posting more faulty headlines as evidence …….. but I will do so later, just to give you a little more to gripe about. or you could actually try searching for them yourself before you pound again on the keyboard.
yes, humans make this thing called MISTAKES. so did the SA this morning. get a grip on yourself. the JFK headline was NOT OBSCURE. lol
Enough of this.
I’m taking the liberty of cutting off this thread of the discussion.
New points of view always welcome.
I saw that headline as well. Is it the same in the on-line edition? I rarely look at the latter these days because of the slow-w-w-w-w downloads and the pop-up ads that cover my entire computer screen that get to stay there for up to two minutes before they can be closed.
Not sure if it has been changed since it appeared in the original online edition but this is how the headline reads a/o 11:25 a.m.:
“PAC spends $2.8M in advertising, mainly against Cayetano “.
But wait! There’s more! This is just one example in a paper replete with errors, typographical and factual. Just a few from the past week in the editorial page endorsements:
(1) Claimed Kaneshiro forced Carlisle out of the prosecutor’s office when the former was elected in 1989. Carlisle didn’t even apply for retention and had accepted a job with a private firm before Kaneshiro even made his initial personnel decisions;
(2) Endorsing Sam Slom, misspelled (repeatedly) his opponent’s name; and
(3) Endorsing her for House, referred to the incumbent Marilyn Lee as “Senator.”
So, the problems are not just gremlins in the software; they reflect sloppy research, poor writing, and seemingly non-existent proofreading/copy-editing.
I’m interested that SA mentions that only subscribers can post comments. So what is that all about? I suspect that, with subscribers, they have record of everybody’s IP address when they log in and, if someone posts on SA, the service will have a log of that IP also? If you get what I mean, i.e. when and if they want to check out a snarky posting, they can match the posting IP with the log in account IP. Actually, if might be simpler than that……
Ian, you referred to me once as Jerry “otherwise anonymous.” I notice there are a lot of interesting pseudonym nick-names or partial names among your readers. Some folks who have name recognition or simply want to ID themselves completely also do so. I think you are to be thanked for allowing those of us who desire a “handle” or nickname are allowed our privacy, or at least humoring us – I don’t think there is anything wrong about that for the vast majority of posters.
Yes, I’ve haven’t had many problems due to anonymous comments.
Thankfully.
Yes, and getting back to the SA: In cases where they are either orchestrated or in bed with powerful players of any type, there might be a temptation to check out whose posting contrary opinions as some type of “favor” to vested interests?
I guess my point about the SA was that, as I remember, all comments on SA articles were subject to moderation before the SA went so far as to exclude non-subscribers. So I can only conclude they want to create some sort of audit trail to match postings to log-ins if they deem it advisable to do so. Which, I think, is more pernicious than screening posts.