Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1901 — Journalistic Errors. [ARTICLE]

Journalistic Errors.

I do not allude to what are obviously mere misprints, such as when The Morning Post announced at the head of Its fashionable Intelligence that Lord Palmerston had gone down into Hampshire with a party of fiends to shoot peasants, but I refer to blunders due to crass ignorance of a pretentious order. Perhaps the best Instance was when one of the “young lions” of The Daily Telegraph in a leading article enumerated the great masters of Greek sculpture as Phidias, Praxiteles and Milo, ignorant of the fact that Milo Is not a sculptor, but an Island. The Times was even worse when, mistaking Prussia for Austria, it devoted a whole leader to discussing why Prussia had joined the zollverein. The Saturday Review once explained at great length that the population might be nourished gratuitously ou young lambs if killed unweaned before they had begun to crop grass, having therefore cost nothing to feed. Many other Instances will doubtless occur to your readers. —Notes and Queries.