Readers of the Memphis Commercial Appeal founda strangely out - of - place paragraphinan clause about business zoning regulations : A 350 - plus Book condition update apparently intended for the Facebook page of the newspaper ’s written matter editor . At least she alert us that it ’d be long .
Jim Romenesko ’s blog has a snapshotof the article as it appeared in the print version of the Commercial Appeal . Everything looks normal until , midway through a time , the article veers off wildly , detour into a story about how the copy editor program in head accepted a newspaper caper she ’d initially turned down , thanks to some impregnable advice from her Mama .
“ … and so began a 30 - yr news media career , ” the phantom Facebooker publish , suggest that had she not assume the job , she might still be live with Mama , working at a cell phone store , waiting for a good news media job than the one she take so many years ago .
Louis Graham , editor of the Commercial Appeal , explained to Romeneskohow the Facebook imitation pas occurred :
A copy editor had multiple screen door open and as I understand copied the position update from her e-mail into FB , then later accidently copy it , again , into the schoolbook of the story she was editing . Obviously , it ’s embarrassing for her and the paper ; it ’s a regrettable accident . We ran a correction in print this aurora and re - ran the story .
Look , we ’ve all copy - pasted the wrong affair into the wrong window . It ’s a peril of our digital life . Fortunately for most of us , one of those windows is n’t usually the one that sends printing process insistency into motion and dispense your folly to hundreds , or thousands , of reader .
Let ’s just trust the Facebooker in inquiry has n’t found herself having to follow her Mama ’s advice about finding a business again . [ Jim Romenesko ]
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