Dear me, this is fast becoming a blog of my mistakes. Perhaps I should change the title to “Cock ups of a sub-editor”. I guess that on the positive side, as long as I’m cocking up, I’m learning… and as long as people are realising I’m cocking up then not too much damage is being done.
So what did I do this time?
Well, in a story about a London consultancy urging Greece to exit the euro to help tackle its debt, the debt was put at 300 million euros. I checked the name of the consultancy. I checked the conversion from euros to pounds. I checked every other darn thing in the story. I sent it through to the revise subs.
It should have been 300 billion. Obviously.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
