Enough doom and gloom

Every day seems to bring news of the biggest fall on the stock market since the Jurassic era. I wonder how much all this reporting of doom and gloom by the media is actually responsible for investors and savers panicking? The BBC for example precedes any story it has now on the 'credit crunch' by a backdrop of share prices in the red and a graph with the trend going south at an alarming rate.

So enough already -- time we all started to be more positive about life, the universe and everything... and to demonstrate the fallability of the media here are some clangers and wonderful mis-prints/typos:

“A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth’s atmosphere.” — New York Times, 1936

“Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality in 10 years.” -– Alex Lewyt, president of vacuum cleaner company Lewyt Corp., in the New York Times in 1955

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

"With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market." -- Business Week, August 2, 1968

Misprints

People in Preston ward are invited to a meeting at 7.15pm tonight in St Mary's Church Hall, Brighton, to meet councillors and beat police officers. (Evening Argus)

The skeleton was believed to be that of a Saxon worrier. (Express and Echo)

The strike leaders had called a meeting that was to have been held in a bra near the factory, but it was too small to hold them all. (South London Press)

One man was admitted to hospital suffering from buns. (Bristol Gazette)

Police in Hawick yesterday called off a search for a 20-year-old man who is believed to have frowned after falling into the swollen River Teviot. (The Scotsman)

The first aid treatment for a broken rib is to apply a tight bandage after you have made your patient expire. (Manchester Evening News)