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The day an article about a fraternity getting sanctioned appears on the front page of the KSU paper, a couple of guys drive around campus picking up all the copies, claiming there was a typo and the papers are being taken back to be pulped and replaced. Suuuuure.
FWIW, I've never, ever heard of a paper (college or otherwise) running around collecting copies in an attempt to catch an error. It's too expensive, and generally pointless (your basic closing the barn door after the horses have escaped). They just print a correction in the next edition, maybe issue a public apology if the mistake was a whopper. Every time I've heard of people collecting papers to pulp because of "errors," it's always turned out to be some group trying to suppress news they didn't like. Or outright suppress an entire paper they didn't like (the Pundit, the alternative paper when I was in college, often got "error correction" collections courtesy of the fraternities, thanks to its generally anti-frat editorial stance). Sometimes it's political (College Republicans stealing left-leaning papers, Young Democrats stealing right-wing papers), but usually it's frats or sports supporters reacting to an article making One Of Their Own look bad.
sigma7.The day an article about a fraternity getting sanctioned appears on the front page of the KSU paper, a couple of guys drive around campus picking up all the copies, claiming there was a typo and the papers are being taken back to be pulped and replaced. Suuuuure.
FWIW, I've never, ever heard of a paper (college or otherwise) running around collecting copies in an attempt to catch an error. It's too expensive, and generally pointless (your basic closing the barn door after the horses have escaped). They just print a correction in the next edition, maybe issue a public apology if the mistake was a whopper. Every time I've heard of people collecting papers to pulp because of "errors," it's always turned out to be some group trying to suppress news they didn't like. Or outright suppress an entire paper they didn't like (the Pundit, the alternative paper when I was in college, often got "error correction" collections courtesy of the fraternities, thanks to its generally anti-frat editorial stance). Sometimes it's political (College Republicans stealing left-leaning papers, Young Democrats stealing right-wing papers), but usually it's frats or sports supporters reacting to an article making One Of Their Own look bad.
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But if you want a fantastic read, here (http://sigma7.livejournal.com/194623.html)'s some classic media blunders (http://web.archive.org/web/20021112205312/www.poynter.org/medianews/extra10.htm), including one which necessitated hunting down papers to replace dummy copy:
From TOM BUTLER: On Election Night in 1988, the Savannah Morning News prepared an index box of inside articles. The artist, in a whimsical mood, prepaared a dummy box as a place holder untilk the real index was ready. Sure enough, the final edition went to press with the dummy index with such stories as:
Page 3: Dukakis Names Cabinet Despite Having Lost
Page 4: Bush Checks Into White House, Orders News Drapes, Call Domino's
Page 6: Dukakis Plucks Eyebrows, Fixes Nose, Plans to Become a Monk
Page 8: Who Put the Brang in the Branga Danga Ding Dang, Who Was That Man, I'd Like to Shake His Hand, He Made My Baby Fal in Love With Me
Page 9: Quayle Drools at the Thought of Being President, Bush Says "Over My Dead Body"
I was told that when it was caught, distribution employees were sent out at 5 a.m. to retrieve copies of the paper from people's front lawns.