Something tells me that someone just copy and pasted text from an online article. Whoops.
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The Fiesta sedan comes as a sedan or a hatchback? Did anybody read this thing before it went to press?
I keep tapping the page and nothing happens!! Why won’t it click?! Can someone help me, please? I don’t know computers!
Yep, you’re going to see more of that as online news sites increasingly partner with legacy print sites, which still have white space to fill but fewer reporters to fill that space with copy, and fewer copy editors to edit that copy.
As the editor of an online personal finance news website that has print partners, I’ve had to ban the phrase “click here” on our site, in part to avoid this very problem.
Of course, we online folks have a similar oops.
Go to the Googles and type “headline goes here” to see how many times a careless Web editor posted a story without overwriting the headline field in the story template.
This sort of error betrays that newspapers, and this one in particular, is nothing more than a print-off of a website. They cannot last as such. Newspapers have to give something MORE than a website can – apart from nostalgia. The question is WHAT?