[Reubachi]

"Mr. Foreman was not at home during the 2002 police raid, but a security camera system and his wife, using her cellphone, recorded the “faces and bodies” of the officers while they were on the property, according to the lawsuit"

"2002" New York Times, everyone.

Props to afroman for his perfect demeanor/attitude during all this.

[esprehn]

2022. I'm not sure phones recorded useful video in 2002.

[refulgentis]

Right. It’s a little hard to parse but they’re saying “The NYT has a typo”

[netsharc]

And what he's implying. "The NYT has a typo, it's all garbage!"

[amiga386]

They're implying "An establishment calling itself a 'newspaper of record' can be expected to have high standards, such as correctly reporting dates, and I'll hold them to that"

If you can spot a typo in the first few seconds of reading a piece, so can the editor and sub-editor before it's published.

[ddellacosta]

Myself and most other programmers I know have at least once (more like 100 times) had the experience where you can't figure something out in some code you've been staring at for an hour, then another person comes along and immediately sees an obvious glaring error that you missed.

I can only imagine the same thing happens in newsrooms with text, especially when it is visibly very similar, like "2002" and "2022."

[HWR_14]

That's why all news stories are supposed to be reviewed before publication by a second person

[tehjoker]

Newspapers used to have copyeditors for this kind of thing. I thought NYT still did.

[Dansvidania]

Youd expect them to have a checklist too though.

[madaxe_again]

The process these days is more like publish then do editorial review. See it on major outlets all the time - break the story as early as possible, get the eyeballs and ad revenue, then get it cleaned up for posterity.

Sometimes this results in radical changes to a piece within hours of publication - yesterday for instance the BBC ran a piece headlined something like “I watched my father murder my mother”, and six hours later in slides an editorial correction saying “she did not, in fact, see her father murder her mother. She was asleep in another room at the time.”

[embedding-shape]

Sony Ericsson P800 from 2002 had 640×480 videos captured from its camera :) While I wouldn't claim the quality is great, you could tell more or less what was going on.

[tolerance]

There used to be a Twitter account that pointed out typos like this—I think exclusively—in the NYT.

[newobj]

Surprised they didn't write 2ÖÖ2, knowing the Times' predilections

[nightpool]

You're thinking of the New Yorker, not the New York Times.

[newobj]

cries in west coaster

[drsalt]

that's not how it works, you only need one umlaut