Media

Staffers at the Suffolk Journal this week learned one of the most important rules of print journalism: If you put in a joke headline, you're going to forget to take it out and it will run and boy are you going to regret it.

In today's issue of The Journal, we published an inappropriate sub-headline in the article "SLI Involvement Fair a success." We want to apologize profusely for the mistake and make it clear that we in no way harbor ill feelings towards the Student Leadership and Involvement Office, nor any of the students and staff that work there. The sub-head was put in as a joke, by editors, that unfortunately slipped through our editing process later in the night. We want to make it clear that the reporter who wrote the article had no idea or anything to do with the subhead.

And just what did they write? See for yourself.

H/t, Dan.

Dan Kennedy gives us an overview of the Globe retraction of its story that former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor - who sparked three civil wars (one of them in a neighboring country) - worked for the CIA. The retraction apparently hasn't been enough to keep the former Bentley student and one-time guest of the Commonwealth (MCI Plymouth, before he escaped) from taking time out from his busy schedule of defending himself before a special UN court on charges of rape, murder and other war crimes.

A Globe story about love among the occupods left out an interesting fact about the guy shown kissing his girl at Dewey Square. The Herald helpfully reveals the fact that the guy is a Level 3 sex offender - although not the one who's caused a ruckus at Occupy Boston meetings of late.

Ripped from today's Herald: Are 'Joe for Oil' ads lubricating Joe III's run?

Perfectly valid question to ask, but nowhere does the story suggest that Joe4Oil has suddenly ramped up his omnipresent ads now that his kid is thinking of running for Congress, although it does note he's been thanking the people of Venezuela on TV for years now.