The Sun apologises for mispelling soldier's mother's name, after attacking Brown for same
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A picture posted on Twitter that shows The Sun apparently apologising for spelling the name of Jacqui Janes, the mother of Guardsman Jamie Janes who was killed in action in Afghanistan, incorrectly.Remember... it was The Sun who posted Gordon Brown's condolence letter to Mrs Janes and claimed there was 25 mistakes in it and called for him to apologise. The also posted a private phone call between the PM and Mrs Janes on their website to further twist the knife?
So is this real? Apparently it appeared on here earlier (http://mysun.co.uk/go/discussions/community) but it looks like it has since been taken down.
http://www.twitpic.com/pc2bd
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blanch
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hahahahaha good enough for them
- 3 months ago
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blanch
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xJasper
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You stay classy, Sun.
- 3 months ago
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xJasper
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richjm
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The Guardian's confirmed the story. A comment on their site sums it up pretty neatly:
"'Mistake'? That's odd, I thought the correct term for this sort of thing was 'BLOODY SHAMEFUL'."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/13/sun-apologises-misspelling-soldier
- 3 months ago
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richjm
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mattbrawn
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I saw this story earlier after seeing @Joe [http://twitter.com/joe] was using the aptly named hashtag #sunfail
You can track it here:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=sunfailPersonally, I find it ridiculous that these kind of editorial errors slipped through unnoticed on a story about those very same mistakes. Wonder if it'll make it into the print version....?
- 3 months ago
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mattbrawn
