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Via Townhall:

Best typo ever?

Writing for the print newspaper is one thing. You’ll have an editor and at least one copy editor reading your copy before it gets printed.

Blogging for a Web site? You’re on your own. You can’t count on spell-check to save you. And they haven’t invented fact-check, far as I know.

Amanda Hess, a reporter who blogs about “sex and gender at work, in bed, and on the street” for TBD.com, a Web site in Washington, D.C., scribed quite possibly the world’s worst best typo a couple days ago. In a post about HIV-positive black men, she wrote:

“one in three black men who have sex with me is HIV positive.“

Ummmm.

Errrrrrrr.

Get me rewrite!

Within minutes, someone tweeted about her mistake. What she meant to write was “one in three black men who have sex with men is HIV positive.”

What a difference one letter makes.

Photo via The Frisky.

Spare us the snark, though, Huber, considering the number of stories that get broken by blogs these days that wouldn't have to, if the MSM were up to doing its job.

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