MY NEWSREADER just picked up an AP story that seems to have gone out with the editing markups still intact. Pretty funny. First the editor simply deleted the writer's first clause, which was just a minor rant, and then cleaned up a lot of lousy writing. Crap, I don't seem to be able to duplicate the strikethroughs when cutting an pasting. Everything is red was a strikethrough. I've actually never seen anything like this outside the newsroom. Somebody screwed up big time.
AP - With time running out on an often testy seven-year relationship, President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin are taking have failed to reconcile differences on a lot of unfinished business in their final leader-to-leader meetings Sunday.planned U.S. missile defense system but did agree to a "strategic framework" guiding future U.S.-Russia relations.
Here's the edited, edited version that eventually appeared.
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed in talks Sunday to reconcile differences on a planned U.S. missile defense system but did agree to a "strategic framework" guiding future U.S.-Russia relation.
PS—Maybe this isn't so unusual—I've scanned the leads of the first six stories on Yahoo RSS top news feed and three of them are these crazy rough drafts. Click through to the story and you get the finished product. One was a Reuters story, so it isn't just the losers at AP.
