‘Positive’ Magazine Shelved Over Misspellings

Alright, try to follow this insanity.

Cook County magazine, what was supposed to be a new title commissioned by Cook County, Illinois board president Todd Stroger, has been shelved due—of all things—to misspellings and grammatical errors.

According to a report in Chicago’s Sun-Times, Stroger hired an editor to develop and publish a magazine in a “non-threatening news environment that ensures regular, positive press—to counter-balance negative press often found in the mainstream media.” Today, though, 5,000 copies of the 32-page glossy are stacked in Stroger’s office with no place to go. The cover story of the launch issue is an interview with Stroger that apparently contains a number of misspellings and omissions.

“I was asked to review [the magazine] and decided not to distribute it—not because of content, but errors and omissions in the article,” a spokesperson for Stroger said in the report. “Judging on grammatical stuff—something misspelled or that’s not a complete sentence—falls back on the president. And this is a Cook County magazine. I have to find a way to get rid of [the issues]. I’m not distributing them.”

I haven’t seen a copy of the magazine myself but, I mean—wow. What a wasted effort. What a waste of paper.

You’d think if you’d go to the trouble of launching a mouthpiece magazine you’d at least use spell check.

By Jason Fell --

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Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 07:34.

It's Cook County. The boss reads the cover story about himself and decides to pulp every copy. Do you really believe *that* cover story?

Grammatical stuff

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 15:06.

So the president's job is "Judging on grammatical stuff -- something misspelled or that's not a complete sentence." In my school, "grammatical stuff" and "spelling" were two different things. Perhaps the county board president could give the copies to local schools and let the kids learn by finding the errors.

Good Idea!

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 19:37.

I agree with the comment above - give them to a local school and have the children edit them. Good idea!

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