The Jason Salas Experience

ESPN had to make haste in modifying the title of an online report about a change in South Carolina's QB (thanks Rock for the screengrab).

I've actually got ESPN's back on this one. Sure, this shouldn't have made the public Web, and say what you want about quality control in the media. But unless you've never worked under duress with a news deadline - especially at a TV company - these things happen. Sometimes it's so obvious you can't see it right in front of you. The imported national news headlines from MSNBC.com I've got running on my site had grammatical or syntactical every now and then.

I'll admit...as a site manager and news editor in the biz, I've made similar snafus myself. We previously have had headlines reading "Due to the threat of the typhoon, all PUBIC schools are closed", and "The man, after his scheduled execution, was hung."

At least it wasn't printed in a publication - unable to be changed in real-time, forcing the always embarrasing retraction. Just another reason newspapers are doomed.