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December 22, 2010
 

An argument for including TV news chyrons in CJR’s The Lower Case feature (“headlines that editors probably wish they could take back”)?

From Mediaite:

Wow. We all make mistakes and typos. There will probably be at least one in this post alone. However, some typos are worse than others. This is one of those typos. Last week, Fox & Friends had on Elie Wiesel to talk about human rights injustices. However, eagle-eyed viewer Young Manhattanite was rewatching the clip online and noticed that they accidentally combined “Holocaust Survivor” and “Nobel Prize Winner” in the chyron so as to identify Weisel as a “Holocaust Winner.”

Watch the video of the segment below. The typo occurs around the 0:40 mark.

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UPDATE:

Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.