Archive: Oops

Weekend news report in the Times is an exact copy of a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune in 2010.

A glaring editing mistake on the cover of Sports distracts from the return of former columnist Peter King.

Check out a headline that needed a copy editor.

Top of the LAT website carries an ad for "Fire without the Fuss" beside a photo gallery on the Da Vinci apartment blaze.

The Los Angeles News Group's printed guide to the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl calls the famous Pasadena stadium the "L.A. Coliseum."

The Beverly Hills Courier emails a keeper headline to its readers about the huge earthquake on the coast of Chile.

Can you spot the misspelling tonight on KCAL 9's weather report? Hint: There is no T in KCAL.

The LA City Council wants action on the Weather Channel-DirecTV dispute — weather or not you agree.

Patch sites have been citing USC as source of documents actually from UC Berkeley. The bigger question, though, is why does LA City Hall not already have all of this data and more on its own buildings?

Perhaps THR should have chosen a little different wording for one of the click-bait links in its story on today's PCH brush fire in Pacific Palisades.

Thousands of people across the LA area received a nerve-jangling email alert this afternoon from the city of Monterey Park. In some cases more than one or two.

Ouch, it's been a bad run in whatever they call the Chyron department these days at KCAL 9.

A reader emails this screen grab: "What were they smoking at KCAL when they wrote this caption?"

Harvard-Westlake is the tony private academy that produced Eric Garcetti. Westlake High School is a public school.

The Wall Street Journal calls the 1902 Tourist the only car ever manufactured in Los Angeles. We disagree.

There was a bunch of hail out in the Mojave Desert this afternoon — those were some mighty pretty thunderheads over the San Gabriels visible from the basin. But it's a long way from the Antelope Valley to the Susquehanna River.

You know it's bad when the most surprising thing isn't that the station aired the names. First, the NTSB confirmed them. Watch the video.

The Daily News headline writer had a brain freeze (happens to all of us) and wrote that soccer player Brandy Chastain stars in "Zero Dark Thirty," not SAG and Golden Globe-nominated actor Jessica Chastain. "So after Bin Laden is killed she takes off her shirt?," Bob Timmermann quips.

Catching up to this unusual Los Angeles Times correction from last week — a reader pointed it out to me today. Um, don't say someone declined to comment unless they actually did.