We’re still wondering about the deal between the Times Standard and the late Eureka Reporter that mandates the T-S running E.R. op ed pages twice a week. Does anyone read Peter Hannaford’s submitted editorials before they go to print? Is the page sent as camera-ready copy? Now we make little copy-editing mistakes every week in the Journal, but nothing matching today’s lead editorial on the E.R. opinion page. Since they don’t post the page online (do they?) I’ll try to reproduce it as closely as possible:
A break in the clouds
Humboldt County’s economic weather looks gloomy, what two chains with local stores shutting down, disappoint Christmas sales, two sawmills cutting back and a below-average crab season. There is a bit of blue sky among the clouds, however, The Humboldt Creamery, now in its
80th set a sakes-record in 2008 of $130 million. That represents an 18 percent increase over 2007 sales.
A cooperative owned by 50 Humboldt dairy farm families, the Humboldt Creamery turns out a prodigious amount of products: 22 million pounds of milk powder, 11 million gallons of ice cream and 4 million gallons of milk. The co-op’s president, Rich Ghilarducci, attributes this volume to to “strong demand in world markets.” As evidence, the creamery last year became the largest exporter of ice cream to Mexico.
How’s that for bringing dollars INTO our county?
How many mistakes can you spot? a) in the first sentence b) overall
Mr. Hannaford, is this really what you submitted? Did you inadvertantly send the wrong draft? Or did some mischievous T-S typesetter alter your copy?
And while we’re asking questions, didn’t anyone tell you that co-ops are the first step down the slippery slope to socialism?
Update – Jan. 27: We emailed Mr. Hannaford asking about the typos and just heard back:
Thank you for your note. We winced when we say the typos. It wasn’t the Times-Standard’s fault. Our regular copy editor was away and Yours Truly was left to do it on the run. Mea culpa. (PS–The regular copy editor is back this week). — Peter Hannaford
This article appears in Hobart’s Children.
Humboldt County’s economic weather looks gloomy, what (1) two chains with local stores shutting down, disappoint (2) Christmas sales, two sawmills cutting back and a below-average crab season. There is a bit of blue sky among the clouds, however,(3) The Humboldt Creamery, now in its
(is the spacing the same in the paper?)
80th set a sakes(4)-record in 2008 of $130 million. That represents an 18 percent increase over 2007 sales.
“spacing the same”?
Yes, the line break was like that, although I did not reproduce the indentation.
So with (3) is that for an improper comma or unnecessary (or simply inconsistent) capitalization of The?
I was looking at the comma, but now that you mention it, the capital “T” is yet another error. So with the spacing, that’s six. Did I miss anything else?
There’s at least one more.
Oh – “to to.”
Whew! Hope you shared this with Lynn.
I saw this too and was puzzled how it got published in that form. I have met Mr. Hannaford and found him to be a very nice man — a throwback to the days when society was more civil.
80th what?
now in its 80th year
Do I win a prize?
I suppose we could come up with something, but it’ll have to be virtual.
Here you go: Your prize.
Somebody needs a vacation…
It reminds me of the JUMBLE page.
Sweet Prize, Bob!
I’m more of a goat dude, but thanks!
But the piece was on cow milk dairies, not goat milk (although that’s another local success story).
BTW, if you’re a goat guy, you might like the one-act play at currently at NCRT — it’s called The Goat — read the review in the upcoming Journal Stage Matters.
Gregg finds one mistake and wins a prize? Dude!
What a bunch of silly nonsense. You guys are wasting time looking at typos ?
The substance of the editorial is sound. You people need to get a life.