See that headline? See the bullet point right under it? I have a hard time believing that illegal immigrants will cost the Bay State 1.8 billion dollars over two years, but 1.8 trillion dollars is like something Joe Biden would say. It’s obviously impossible.
Yet that throbbing typo has been on the web site for two full days. Nobody noticed? Does nobody on the staff read their own website? No readers were sharp enough to pick up on such a flagrant error?
Amazing. My high school newspaper (The Arlington High School Chronicle) was more professional.
Do not trust the Daily Mail.
Ethics Alarms 
I am hesitant to distrust the Daily Mail over this typo. Sure, it is an obvious mistake given that the main headline says billion.
Discounting the Daily Mail who routinely report on matters that are embarrassing to Democrats and are buried by our own 4th estate will not advance citizen awareness.
I give citizens a bit more credit to evaluate events like this.
The fact remains, a publication that doesn’t address an obvious and material typo after two days (and it’s still up!) obviously lacks due diligence, competence and care.
“throbbig” ? 😉
See? I had a typo, a reader noticed it, let me know, and I fixed it immediately. Yet I am just a lonely, unpaid blogger with no staff and many other duties, commitments and responsibilities. And I have a fraction of 1% of the Daily Mail’s readership.
I wish I could say I put that typo in intentionally to prove a point, and I could say that, but I would be lying and that’s unethical.
Awww, I was hoping it was maybe a joke.
I won’t dispute that it screwed up and maybe someone should be fired but to say we should not trust them at all is a bridge too far for me.
We do not know who dropped the ball here. It is possible that it was called out by some lowly editor but the webmaster who does the updates was given higher priorities by someone higher in the food chain. That happens regularly. When one is the chief cook and bottle washer it is understandable that corrections are usually instantaneous.
At this juncture there are no sources of information that can be trusted implicitly. Each has its biases. An editing/proofing error is not the same as willful trafficking in favored spin. I am sure that the Daily Mail like the BBC has its editorial biases just as all of our news media does.
Perhaps the Daily Mail has to focus on not upsetting the EU fascists who are intent on sanctioning speech. X and Elon Musk were just threatened by the EU for his interview with Trump and we have a Democrat VP candidate who does not believe in free speech and probably others if we could press him.
I suggest we have bigger problems than a misprint that is easily identifiable given the larger headline. I am beginning to believe if Europe wants to discard the rights of citizens to speak freely then we should no longer pay the price to defend their proto-totalitarian regimes.
Look at it this way: If a publication can’t be relied upon to deal with an obvious but also materially confounding typo after three days, why trust that it checks its sources and corrects mistaken, erroneous, or false news reports? You can’t trust sources that are intermittently reliable: how do you know which it is in any single instance? If a reliable source makes a mistake, then it must demonstrate that it will a) recognize it b) fix it and c) be transparent about having made the mistake. Absent all three, and that’s an untrustworthy source.
How many news sources are even intermittently reliable?
The Daily Mail has lots of typos. All that notwithstanding, I love they reported on this situation in Taxachusetts. I’m glad to see the virtue signaling denizens of Mass (see the following post on Jarren Duran) are getting slammed where it hurts them the most for their virtue signaling. Gee, I wonder why the Globe hasn’t run this story.
Oops, the Duran story preceded this one.
But that’s not just a typo, OB, like “teh.” It’s subtantive.
“A billion, a trillion? Pretty soon you’re talking about real money.”
Honestly, I did not catch that typo. I think I’ve become so inured to the ridiculous amount of government money being thrown around, I’m never shocked by seeing a trillion-dollar amount anymore.