You Give Moms a Bad Name
11 months ago
The image above shows the poll question from yesterday's Vancouver 24 hours. Good enough. However when showing the poll's results, the first sentence was dropped.
The result is a nonsensical question requiring the reader to recall the full question from the day before - if they even saw it at all. Granted, the Canucks may have been the only local sports team at 0-2 (now they're 0-3!), but I still think dropping the first sentence is a mistake. Then there's this, yesterday's results from Friday's poll (not Sunday, as their "yesterday" implies):
Is it really that hard to match up the color of the majority poll result with the color of the larger piece of the pie? I understand that the poll section of the paper is very low priority and is an easy space-killer, but since it's in the paper at all, maybe a tad more care should be paid.
In today's Vancouver 24 hours, the start of the entertainment section has this teaser for a Reality TV column, but there's a typo as Tom's last name is actually DeLay with a capital L.
Uh oh, the column - which is titled "Chuck Liddell is a fighter, not a dancer" and is found on page 23, not 24 - has the same typo in its intro.
Yeeaaaahhhh, it's not a typo, is it? Three times Delay and never DeLay. Also, Kelly's last name is Osbourne.

-- "Coming to bus stop near you" in Vancouver 24 hours on August 12, 2009
-- "BCTF drops out (local news briefs)" in Vancouver 24 hours on March 17, 2009