Which gulag awaits The Courier-Mail‘s Confidential column editors who pointed out in print today that the pot looked rather black after “a doozy of a typo” appeared in the Oz opinion page headline yesterday over the extract of Hartigan’s speech?
“Reports of newpapers’ deaths are exaggerated”, The Oz said yesterday (pg 12), in about 60pt type.
The Oz sub-editor and section editor responsible are probably also being interrogated at length today in a dank, dripping cell, dim light globe swinging overhead…
No you’ve got it all wrong. It’s the sub & section editor secret code for we know our boss is a tool and has it all wrong, and to prove it we’re going to deliberately insert this error prone headline. In 60pt font. So it sticks out like the proverbial. Honestly.