Our View: Document needed more polish before release

“Lawyers put their mistakes behind bars, doctors put their mistakes in the ground and we put our mistakes on the front page for all to see,” Mark Twain once observed about journalism.

Over the years, we’ve taken our rightfully-earned lumps for typographical errors appearing in print. The English language can be a challenging beast at times and we understand the pain of proofreading something and finding a word with transposed letters or an issue where an article jumps to the wrong page only after the ink has dried. Publications of any size can be challenging to put together -- a fact we’re wel...

 

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