Press: Triple Trouble

Glitches at the Globe

The journalistic axiom that disasters come in threes has proved painfully true for the proud Boston Globe (daily circ 482,000), which has found itself embroiled in triple troubleĀ—all of its own making First, an editorial writer put a joke headline, MUSH FROM THE WIMP, on a piece about President Carter's anti-inflation speech. The headline somehow slipped into 140,000 copies before it was caught and changed to something less irreverent

(ALL MUST SHARE THE BURDEN). Then the next week, some 100 advance issues of the Sunday Globe appeared with the wrong...

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