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This Week in the Daily Iowan by Zach Tilly

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A catalog of the Daily Iowan's Errors

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Page 1: This Week in the Daily Iowan

This Week in the Daily Iowan

by Zach Tilly

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3.2.12 – The Daily Iowan reports that the number 29 is bigger than 71.

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3.1.12 – The Daily Iowan dramatically reports that men’s tennis coach Steve Houghton said this of his players: “Some of the guys aren’t trying. They’re not into it.”

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3.2.12 – Here is what Steve Houghton actually said about his players. Note that the correction incorrectly dates the original article.

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3.2.12 – This was the most compelling question anybody could think of.

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3.1.12 – Here an extraneous “N” on the top of the front page.

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2.29.12 – Here is the inadvertently racist poll that ran on Wednesday. Certainly they could have picked a better word….

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2.28.12 – … well a day earlier somebody used the much less ambiguous “inadvertently”. Whoever changed it to “effectively should be chewed out real good.

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And here’s what Editor B. Sullivan had to say about my tweeting of the racist poll. I don’t think he got the joke. Sigh.