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LAT: Cronkite dead at 92 in 2030

It’s been a big breaking news day here — brush fires, exploding buses, now Cronkite died. What a crazy day and its not even half over for me. I know we were scrambling to get all this news on our site, especially as we impatiently waited for network to hurry up and OK the news for the local sites. So I can imagine that the LAT web staff was similarly crazed, seeing as how they left October 20, 2030 on their obit. Which I’m sure was prepared much more recently in the past. To their credit, I think the date only stayed up for about five minutes. Click to view it bigger.

Copy editors wanted at the LAT

At least, that’s my guess. I, along with probably thousands of readers clicked on the story, “Is The U.S. going overboard on bailouts?” I, of course, get up around 11, so this story has probably been up for at least 11 hours. But when I clicked on the story, it was still not fixed. Of course, the word “bailout” is arguably a recent phenomenon, correctly used as two distinct words, but morphing into one with all the recent — you got it, bailouts.

upnearly a new LAT word

"upnearly" a new LAT word

Now, one of those “two-words-in-one” gaffes is normal; I was prepared to let it go and just keep reading (even though it was all the way at the top of the story). But then there was another!

bailoutsadd -- a new government word or another LAT word creation?

"bailoutsadd" -- three words in one!

Hopefully, that class-action lawsuit filed by the LAT ex- and current employees can help pay for some new copy editors.