instead of 12 Apostles (and my friend would like to add, "which one represents Judas?")
Caption gaffe: Apostates, instead of Apostles 'worst possible mistake'
Newspaper » BYU reprints issues of The Daily Universe due to front page typo.
By Donald W. Meyers
The Salt Lake Tribune
Posted: 04/06/2009 10:03:01 PM MDT
Provo » The phone call Rich Evans got Monday morning wasn't good news.
It was an employee at Brigham Young University's The Daily Universe , where Evans is the editorial manager. There was a typo on the front page.
"It was the worst possible mistake," Evans recalled.
The error? A caption on a photo from this weekend's LDS General Conference stated that "Members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostates and other general authorities raise their hands in a sustaining vote Saturday morning. ..."
The newspaper staff retrieved as many of the 18,500 copies of the paper as possible and reprinted them with the correction. And it issued an apology to the apostles. The staff also explained how it happened: an error in spell-checking.
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A story on the Universe's Web site stated this was the first time in
more than 30 years that the paper had to trash an edition. Evans said the staff will be implementing efforts to prevent a recurrence.
"This appears to have been an honest mistake," said BYU spokeswoman Carri P. Jenkins. A church spokesman declined to comment.
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http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12085011note: this is funny only in Utah. :eyes:
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