Mom and Dad like to rail on the Oelwein Daily Register, which seems to be rife with errors for the most basic mistakes. Well everyone, its not just small town papers. I want to first start by saying I refuse to read the local paper in Iowa City, the IC Press Citizen. I don't read it because it is so anti-University and their "journalists" are not bound by any obligation to have credible, factual information in their articles. That being said, we still get the paper delivered to our house on the weekends, as it is combined with the Des Moines Register.
I just happened to glance through the ICPC today, which by the way is an "award winning" paper. I took interest in the picture and caption because I used to play basketball all the time with the principal in the picture. As I read the caption, two ridiculous errors were immediately noticed. The principal was presented a "plague" and the statue was made of stamped "cooper".
So my takeaway is that as Editor your job is to press spell check in Microsoft Word. Clearly they aren't reading the content or these errors would have been quickly caught.
This is award winning journalism?
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