Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Age in obituaries

We had a glitch in a Stevens Point obituary that was caught before publication. It said the woman was 89 years old when she died, but she was born in 1922. That means he was 86 years old when she died.
I assume most, if not all, Macs on the copy desk have a calculator on the dashboard. It makes sense to do the math before an obituary runs.

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