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Many of our readers enjoy our lowercase series where we highlight unfortunate moments in news. From bad typos to accidents in TV news, check out a compilation of some of the best bloopers in media.
Waterloo-Cedar Falls (IA) Courier, Aug. 16, 2019, via Christopher Martin.
A team of people were paid to produce this pic.twitter.com/yE8G5yZWFc
— Christian Borys (@ItsBorys) July 19, 2019
Does he hold a lottery or pic.twitter.com/BS8rSCakwI
— Thickie Don (@AstrosCounty) June 5, 2019
Funny headline. ‘7000 cops sensitised about sexual harassment online’ could have been better. Just saying pic.twitter.com/J8zu7D0PzZ
— Swati Goel Sharma (@swati_gs) April 12, 2019
Amy Babcock, via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2019/4/4/ummmm
Via FTVLive
Swervin' on that surfboart pic.twitter.com/OskAc0RgJF
— Gerron Jordan (@GerronJordan) April 23, 2019
No seriously WFAA used a picture of a strip club called the Emergency Room on a story about how not to get gouged at the emergency room. pic.twitter.com/PKWWWyCcot
— Txnewsprincess (@txnewsprincess) April 25, 2019
https://twitter.com/HunterLJohnson/status/1107638544728768512
Via FTVLive.com.
😂 what an unfortunate end to that headline. pic.twitter.com/p60Y5uE8nD
— nathan coker (@ncavalanche) February 10, 2019
Just lol'd at unfortunate headline-picture combination pic.twitter.com/TAMFC1VWKp
— Josie Ensor (@Josiensor) February 16, 2019
via FTVLive
This is like when a newspaper puts TKTK in the headline 👋🏻 @Twitter pic.twitter.com/QbZ0PT6JjB
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) February 27, 2019
OUT.
WAYS. pic.twitter.com/03EyHOAqde— Drok Lesnar (@networkned) February 27, 2019
Typo of the week (so far) via @YahooNews pic.twitter.com/paavHcUqzQ
— David S. Joachim (@davidjoachim) March 11, 2019
Meanwhile in Australia… (Australian Newspaper Mistakes DMX For Run-DMC Legend DMC) 🤦♂️🤦♀️ pic.twitter.com/VzEdxEYQCL
— Submission Radio (@SubmissionRadio) January 29, 2019
BREAKING: Cumming man threatened to attack White House, authorities say https://t.co/mIt5qg0NNT
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) January 16, 2019
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