Saturday, 01/26/02

The Portland Mercury, sister paper to The Stranger of Seattle, ran a cute bit last week about "leaflets the Department of Defense neglected to drop". In reprinting the actual leaflets, the Mercury suggests that the Dept. of Defense littered a foreign nation with evidence of domestic illiteracy.

Slate this week ran another copy of the DOD leaflets, this time sporting correct spelling. But The Stranger picked up the bit from the Mercury, and used the graphics with the same strange and obvious typo. So did the government make the mistake, and is Slate covering up for them, or did the Mercury clumsily try to make up for the government's awkward full justification, and slide the error past two sets of editors?

In any event, my favorite picture is the one with the monkey eating a meatball. 08:42PM «

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