December 29th, 2014 at 10:38 AM ^
oh man, that goes back like 35 years ago at michigan. i am so old.
great chart.
December 29th, 2014 at 9:31 AM ^
Well we know what tool was behind this garbage.
December 29th, 2014 at 9:32 AM ^
I'm not much of an lol'er but LOLOLOL!
Priceless!
December 29th, 2014 at 9:34 AM ^
It will sit for years, yellowing as a relic to the chaos of the last week.
December 29th, 2014 at 9:34 AM ^
I'm not much of an lol'er but LOLOLOL!
Priceless!
December 29th, 2014 at 9:35 AM ^
to be eaten alive by Harbaugh in tomorrow's presser.
December 29th, 2014 at 9:44 AM ^
As someone who has been in journalism, I should sympathize with this situation. But it's the Free Press. Therefore: BUWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
December 29th, 2014 at 9:36 AM ^
Those Harbaughs all look alike.
December 29th, 2014 at 10:47 AM ^
That's racist
/s
December 29th, 2014 at 9:38 AM ^
Funny
December 29th, 2014 at 9:40 AM ^
FREEP FAIL
December 29th, 2014 at 9:42 AM ^
picture of his dad, mom or wife.
December 29th, 2014 at 9:45 AM ^
Pretty horrible faux pas, but my guess is the interns or whoever is working between Christmas and New Years aren't fully engaged
I like the Free Press a lot. I read it growing up; despite my dislike of Mitch Album and the hatchet job they did to Rich Rodriguez, I still like the coverage they give to the local sports. Helene St. James is excellent for the Wings and John Lowe did a phenomenal job for the Tigers.
Drew Sharp is very cynical and I find his negativity amusing.
December 29th, 2014 at 9:51 AM ^
He is as useless as tits on a male boar.
December 29th, 2014 at 10:17 AM ^
This is too obvious: The interns were engaged, but not fully engaged.
December 29th, 2014 at 9:45 AM ^
.@freepsports Do you even know what a countable Harbaugh is?
— Auld Lang Bryan (@Bry_Mac) December 29, 2014
December 29th, 2014 at 9:49 AM ^
Can't help it - must say it.
Rekt
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December 29th, 2014 at 9:47 AM ^
Close the paper down!
December 29th, 2014 at 9:50 AM ^
Drew Sharp at his Best
December 29th, 2014 at 9:52 AM ^
Freep will always be a joke.
December 29th, 2014 at 9:56 AM ^
That's about right.
December 29th, 2014 at 9:58 AM ^
Golic mentioned this the morning and was laughing about it.
Seriously... how does that make it past the fact checking stage??
I bet they just googled Harbaugh and didn't even know about John. noobs.
December 29th, 2014 at 12:22 PM ^
and places like MGoBlog are thriving.
December 29th, 2014 at 10:00 AM ^
Oh the freep!
What an excellent paper. All news organizations should aspire to to be just like them!
Seriously though, maybe Jim Harbaugh can buy them and turn them around too?
December 29th, 2014 at 10:11 AM ^
No wonder circulation is 100 people and plummeting.
December 29th, 2014 at 10:12 AM ^
What do you expect from the Green Wall?
December 29th, 2014 at 10:39 AM ^
Didn't see it -- out of sheer principle, I don't click freep links.
December 29th, 2014 at 10:49 AM ^
It's a good thing there isn't a link posted and it's a picture of a piece of paper. You're safe to take the bag off your head now.
December 29th, 2014 at 10:41 AM ^
In case anyone cares, I talked to a former colleague of mine from a "sister" paper of the Freep. (Full disclosure: I worked at a Gannett paper for five years on the online sports desk with at least one other Michigan alum--it was NOT the Freep).
He said that Gannett, the parent company, has been centralizing page/photo/copy editing at regional "design centers" for the local papers they own (Freep, Indy Star, Louisville, Arizona Republic, etc) except for USA Today.
So it's quite possible somone not in Detroit AND not well-versed in sports (which the latter has to be the case IMHO) picked the faux photo and edited the page. It's still a massive failure and ultimately falls on the Freep editors for not getting it right, but this is another sign of the downfall of the old-school newspaper business: Local papers that aren't produced locally for the sake of corporate economic efficiency.
December 29th, 2014 at 10:49 AM ^
We could potentially spin this an egalitarian move on the part of thr Freep in that they believe that all Harbaughs are indeed created equal, or we could see it for the amateur mistake that it is and continue to avoid this publication save for some selecti innocuous stories that do appear from time to time (mainly fluff pieces). I am thinking that the latter seems like a more realistic option for the blog.
December 29th, 2014 at 12:28 PM ^
The incompetence of that rag never ceases to amaze me. They give journalism a bad name ... which takes some doing.
December 29th, 2014 at 1:05 PM ^
Check their twitter, they have been very funny about owning up to the blunder.
December 29th, 2014 at 1:21 PM ^
That's what I love about print media: no Delete Key.