Thursday, February 01, 2007

Los Angeles Times Headline Writers Still Contradict What Is In The Stories!

Below is the actual lede of the story on the website:

By Andrew Blankstein, Times Staff Writer
11:04 AM PST, February 1, 2007

The company behind the blinking electronic devices that sparked terrorism fears in Boston intended to place them at nearly 50 locations in Los Angeles, authorities said today.


Below is the headline and the lede on the front page of the website... on crack:

Boston guerrilla marketers look west

By Andrew Blankstein | 11:04 a.m.
The firm whose blinking devices caused havoc in Boston wants to put them in L.A.


Real story - they had been planning to put them in LA.

Headline writer's story - they now want to place them in LA.

Time stamp on both posts - 11:04.

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