When I was in college I had an unpaid internship with the school newspaper. I thought it was going to lead to a career as an editor in my professional life but this was back in the early 90's so we didn't yet realize that print newspapers were facing their end. Therefore, it is probably a good thing that I wasn't able to find work in this industry because it likely would have been very low-paying and the job almost certainly would have been eliminated by now since most newspapers don't even exist anymore offline.
But there was a time when print newspapers were a big business and the times when editors, who presumably were paid, missed major mistakes, is something that I find really amusing in a nostalgic way.
I would have been reprimanded or perhaps fired for these sorts of mistakes, even though I wasn't actually being paid at the time.
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Technically, this author is 100% spot on correct, but that is just a really stupid headline that if you saw that in your morning paper you would probably think that you read it incorrectly and your mind was playing tricks on you. Nope, they really printed that.
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Back when I was editing, a lot of the software was pretty basic as were all computers in the early 90's. We did, however, have spell check and spelling "brian" without a capitol "B" would have been pointed out by any of the systems that I used. Even if it didn't, your own brian should probably identify this straight away. When you consider that this presumably went through an author and at least one editor and none of them caught it, it's pretty embarrassing.
For all of your people out there that didn't work professionally or semi-professionally as an editor for a newspaper: Can you think of any way that this could have been worded better? Since this wasn't a puff piece and was a major story all around the world you would think that a ton of eyes would have been on this story and someone would have said "uhhhhh, guys, we really should rethink the headline here."
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I'm not really into sports but even I know that "Colon" is the pitcher's name even though I had to look it up to find out that it is actually referring to Bartolo Colón and his surname isn't pronounced like the body part. I actually don't think this was a mistake but rather someone at the paper being a wiseacre. While the boss would probably also find this funny it isn't very nice and I would imagine that someone was reprimanded for this.
Headline mistakes in this day and age are extremely numerous as well and many times there are egregious misspellings in headlines because there is so much pressure for news sources to have updated content every hour. I find it a bit more understandable when a story under pressure has a mistake here and there but there was a time when we actually printed out test copies and multiple sets of eyes would review it over and over before it went to print. I like to believe that I was better at my "job" than a lot of people who had the same job in the professional world and were paid for it. That being the case though, I am quite happy that my then career of choice didn't pan out for me because I would have been laid off just like everyone else.
The DIana headline is the example given for what the French call Vérité de Lapalisse (in other words: self-evident)
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