Picture: The best newspaper correction you’ll see this week

Unfortunately we here at JOE have had to apologise for a mistake or two on occasion, but we don’t think any of our errors have been as unintentionally hilarious as this.

They say that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones and we are as prone to errors on these pages as any newspaper/magazine/publication/website, so we’re not pointing the finger at Australian paper The Morning Bulletin for an error which appeared in the paper recently, merely complimenting them on the brilliant way in which they subsequently addressed it.

Fortunately, thanks to the wonders of the web we are able to amend our errors as soon as we become aware of them, a luxury unavailable to newspapers, but if we ever had to print a correction for something, we’d like it to go a little something like this…

Pic via Twitter/Andrew Bloch

In case you can’t read the correction above, it reads: “The story, by reporter Daniel Burdon, said ‘more than 30,000 pigs were floating down the Dawson River’.

“What Baralaba piggery owner Sid Everingham actually said was ’30 sows and pigs’ not ‘30,000 pigs’.”

How said reporter actually thought that there were 30,000 pigs floating down a river we’ll never know, but for the simple fact that this correction would never have came to our attention had he not massively misunderstood what actually happened, we’ll let him off the hook for this one.