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… or give me death.

By Jonathan Goldsbie

2008_12_4CBCFail.jpg
Screenshot taken around 11 p.m., about four hours after the story went up. The error has since been corrected.

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  • rek

    Harper and the Cons have poisoned political discourse in this country.

  • David Topping

    Failblog has destroyed the whole entire internet.

  • j0hnnyb

    It’s not a fact-check fail. It’s a copy-editing fail. Fail.

  • Jonathan Goldsbie

    It’s not a fact-check fail. It’s a copy-editing fail.
    I know, j0hnnyb, but “CBC copy-editing FAIL” and “CBC copy-edit FAIL,” and even “CBC proof-reading FAIL” and “CBC proof-read FAIL,” lack the snap of “CBC fact-check FAIL.”
    My impression of FAIL Blog is that entries aren’t always branded literally.
    Besides, I find it funnier this way. It’s obviously actually a copy-editing error, but I like the idea that — having gotten wrong such a crucial word — the name of the party is a fact the CBC would do well to verify.
    Failblog has destroyed the whole entire internet.
    I’m pretty sure this will be my first and last FAIL post for Torontoist. I’ve exhausted the format.

  • nib

    dugg for internet meme reference.

  • David Newland

    Yawn. Stone-throwing from a glass house.

  • spacejack

    If you were quick (and OCD) enough, you could probably maintain a blog with hourly updates of all the mistakes that appear on CBC’s website – until someone notices and fixes them. It’s probably not so different for most other news sites either.
    I noticed the entire site pretty much crashed a couple of days ago.

  • Svend

    I don’t see a connection to Parliament, it’s the MP who failed.

  • Hungrybum

    You may be have been viewing a cached page for 4 hours.
    Did you clear your cache before jumping up and down with excitement at finding a typo?

  • paigesix

    sorry, but a simple typo three paragraphs in does not make a fail… FAIL.

  • wandabun

    this a lame attempt at a post… who gives a crap?