This is a brilliant newspaper correction, printed in Australia's Morning Bulletin:
It is a little surprising that the reporter didn't think to check. "Crikey, that's a lot of a pigs mate, are you sure you mean 30,000?". Similarly, if they really thought there were 30,000 pigs floating down the river, why did they only put it on page 11? That would be Biblical!
(Hat tip to Tom Adams and Victoria Raimes for flagging, and HeathC for sharing the original.)
The Indy once wrote a news in brief about envy queues instead of NVQs ...
Posted by: Malcolmcoles | Feb 07, 2011 at 16:28
What's really funny is that the Morning Bulletin's offices overlook the river. You'd think if there were 30,000 pigs floating past the office they might have expected to see them
Posted by: bob loblaw | Feb 07, 2011 at 22:20
Thanks, I needed that (laugh!)!
Posted by: Jan Waters | Feb 09, 2011 at 14:44
Thank you. Your post inspired me to start a new blog. But what to call it...?
Posted by: Ourmani Nabiko | Feb 17, 2011 at 16:16