Daily Telegraph accidentally runs Sydney Morning Herald editorial
It’s been a tumultuous time for print media in recent years – with shrinking staff, shrinking budgets, and shrinking pages. Then Nine bought Fairfax, and people weren’t sure what was going to happen to its mastheads, including The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
So you can imagine people’s confusion today, when they were flipping through the Rupert Murdoch-owned The Daily Telegraph only to come across a page from rival The Sydney Morning Herald – the editorial page no less.
Yowzer! Today’s Daily Telegraph features @smh editorial pages. How did that happen?? pic.twitter.com/EH7SbaLgpg
— Sabra Lane (@SabraLane) April 24, 2019
Good morning readers, today @DailyTelegraph printed 2 pages from The Sydney Morning Herald in some editions. Both papers share the same printing facility in Sydney’s west and the error happened during the production process. We apologise for any confusion this has caused. pic.twitter.com/PzGSeLjlmH
— The Daily Telegraph (@dailytelegraph) April 24, 2019
It appears the SMH opinion pages have accidentally been printed inside the Daily Telegraph. pic.twitter.com/Hzz1HnEP4i
— Alice Workman (@workmanalice) April 24, 2019
So.. for those who doubt; here is a little video. pic.twitter.com/vCh2KHHgfx
— Sabra Lane (@SabraLane) April 24, 2019
Right next to the sassy and gossipy Sydney Confidential, is The Sydney Morning Herald opinion page.
Dr Mumbo has verified the error, and notes that when News Corp and the-company-formerly-known-as-Fairfax entered the agreement to share printing presses in 2018, Fairfax CEO Greg Hywood said it would be “more efficient”.
Indeed, Mumbrella ran the line: “The arrangement will have no impact on content for either publisher. ” Whoops.
A Herald spokesperson told Dr Mumbo: “We hope the early edition readers of the Tele enjoyed our Sydney Morning Herald editorial. We have been advised it was an error which was corrected as soon as it was identified so later editions weren’t impacted.”
Gotta love cost cutting
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Suddenly there are going to a whole lot more edumacated people using big words
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Wow! Balanced reporting! Who’d have thought it?
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Nice to see something reasonably accurate in the Tele.
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MY BRAIN HURTS!
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I know spelling mistakes happen…. but the incidences of spelling mistakes and questionable grammar are now a daily thing .
I was left scratching my head the other day when I read ” Fesh Measles Scare ” thinking it was a new scary strain. But no… just missing an “r”
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I once worked for the Garudian. D.
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All i can say is LOL..
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Expect even more in the fast plummeting Courier-Mail when another round of redundancies claims some of the last remaining subs in mid-May.
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thank you!!!
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