Whoops! Slate's C-Word Slip-up

There are Freudian slips and then there’s what Slate did Tuesday of this week when a headline writer must have gotten his or her thoughts twisted in a knot.

Slate editor David Plotz issued a statement to Big Journalism, which noticed the error, Wednesday morning stating the headline was unintended. He wrote, “It’s embarrassing. It’s a mistake, and of course we didn’t intend it. It slipped by our corrections monitoring yesterday night. We’re correcting it now.”

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