In the September 11, 1852 issue of the New Jersey Herald, an article claimed that a bear attack killed a child. The reader would be left to believe that the bear attack had occured in New Jersey. But the editors had simp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/12/Newspaper-Issues-Correction-for-Error-in-1852-Article/(Photo: Shubhra Gupta)There's dire news from India. The newspaper The Indian Express warns us that "headline awaited." It declared this fact in all eight regional editions, indicating that the entire nation faces this cr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/19/Urgent-Headline-Awaited/Bruce Farrin, writing for the Maine newspaper Rumford Falls Times, probably meant "food pantries." Just in case he didn't make a mistake, stand back and get your food somewhere else.Link -via American Digest...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/09/Panties-Under-Great-Strain/(Video Link) This might just be one of the strangest scenes in The Shining, but The New York Times Correction on the matter might just be even weirder. Here goes: Correction: January 29, 2012 An earlier version of thi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/09/the-weirdest-new-york-times-correction-ever/Last Sunday was the 160th anniversary of The New Y... ...rculation has been dropping drastically (like all newspapers in our internet-powered culture). In 2006, The Ti... ...inches, making it the same size as most standard newspapers . This resulted in a 5% reduction of news coverage...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/21/the-new-york-times-just-turned-160/Artist Kim Rugg specializes in re-arranging shapes and text on paper. We've previously posted about her discovery that Royal Mail stamp reading machines would take any shaped stamp, so as long as they had the correct co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/08/artist-alphabetizes-newspaper/Today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss is a co... ...; now we can try to figure out what magazines and newspapers are represented by their typefaces. I scored 7 of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/13/typefaceoff-magazines-newspapers/Here's a blog that consists of newspaper headlines that appeared in comic books. The lack of context makes them funnier than they were ever intended to be! Link -via Metafilter...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/05/01/dateline-silver-age/"Crash Blossoms" are ambiguous headlines that can be quite funny. They result from the space-saving technique of leaving out articles, conjunctions, and sometimes even verbs. For years, there was no good name for these...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/12/crash-blossoms/You may have heard that newspapers are dying, but people still buy them every day. T... ...Quiz at mental_floss asks you to name the top ten newspapers in the United States as computed by daily circula...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/04/name-the-top-ten-newspapers/
