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The Internet Can’t Stop Laughing At This Newspaper’s Front Page Headline Fail

By Aiman Shahab
December 7, 2017
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If there’s one thing you can always count on the internet for, it’s grammar nerds.

They’ll always be happily ready to take up copy-editing duties. And the services are absolutely free! Lingering deep in the dungeons of the Internet, these grammar nerds don’t miss a chance at proving that they’re better than you. Although a person’s time can generally be spent more productively elsewhere, people just love catching grammatical errors.

However, some grammar errors are so deplorable, calling them out would be doing the world a favor! Like this unfortunate front-page headline that somehow made it to the front page of Cambridge news:

“100PT Splash Heading Here.”

Front page ready to go? You checked it?
Yeah, it’s good. @CambridgeNewsUK pic.twitter.com/YqazwkQ7ZZ

— Gareth Marlow (@GarethMarlow) December 6, 2017

And the Internet can’t stop laughing at this newspaper’s front page headline fail:

Dear oh dear. I have a feeling the next issue's splash might be: 'EDITOR FIRED OVER
MISSING HEADLINE.' pic.twitter.com/txHynKMO5G

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) December 6, 2017

If you think you’re having a bad day, just think how the editor of the Cambridge News must be feeling….😱

— Jacqui Oatley (@JacquiOatley) December 6, 2017

It was an especially excruciating sight for journalists, and they couldn’t help but point it out – calling it a marketing strategy:

That’s a tough morning 🙈! I want a copy! Will prob do great sales…smart 😏

— Nathan Judah (@NathanJudah) December 6, 2017

Nonetheless, Twitter users also predicted the future of this journalism frenzy:

Wow. It’s real. This’ll be featured in newspaper sub-editing courses for years. And available at all good newsagents near you today, folks. pic.twitter.com/JS8YpuedVW

— Chris Rand (@ChrisRandWrites) December 6, 2017

Just bought my copy of this future classic. Amazing. pic.twitter.com/uQj7hBhCPm

— Dominick Reed (@IDrinkLeadPaint) December 6, 2017

The paper went on social media to apologize for the error later that day:

We would like to sincerely apologise for the technical problem that caused the main headline to not appear on the Cambridge edition, although the correct one was printed on the Cambourne News

— Cambridgeshire Live (@Cambslive) December 6, 2017

As did the editor in chief:

I would like to apologise to all readers of the Cambridge News for the error on today's front page https://t.co/RXvuih151d

— david bartlett (@davidbartlett1) December 6, 2017