helmintholog: A subbing error

A subbing error

Wednesday April 19, 2006; part of: Journalism

I posted a version of the Cannibal Blogger piece down the page a little, before sending it off to the Guardian. It got held up there by the spam filters -- this seems to happen to my copy quite often -- so I had to send another version with all the naughty words replaced by square-bracketed euphemisms. They all seemed clear enough to me, and all but one was obviously clear to the sub who did, however, let through the phrase "a copy of the [Mark Steyn] monologues".

Oh shit. Still, a correction to that will look even more ridiculous than the one that Dan Dennett had printed.

Posted by andrewb at April 19, 2006 12:38 PM

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That's one for the ages. I'm sitting here laughing like an idiot.

Posted by: David Weman on April 20, 2006 02:20 PM

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