This CTV News headline—“Pilot program has surgeons catching lung cancer sooner”—had Cindy Marven confused for a few seconds, wondering when lung cancer had become contagious and why surgeons seem to be particularly susceptible.
Source: CTV News online, April 27, 2013.
CTV News online usually has high standards for editing, but, as seen in this November 21, 2012, headline, “B.C. MP calls for tsumani debris clean-up fund,” even the most astute editors don’t catch every typo. Here, the pesky m and n switch—in tsunami—escaped their notice. Photo by Stefania Alexandru.
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