Today’s column is one that could easily, under slightly more charitable circumstances, have been slotted into our younger sibling’s space, Mediocre Bytes, the not-so-nasty look at the little mistakes that happen all the time in our media.

The one that maybe don’t amount to a hill of beans but still have us shaking our heads about the direction the once great craft of journalism is heading.

So why has this one been elevated to Media Glass House? Take a gander at the circled bit (above) taken from Jacqueline Maley’s column in today’s The Sun-Herald.

We would all like to think, would we not, that the aim of each and every politician we elect to parliaments and councils at all levels across Australian society – federal, state and local – is simply this: to ensure that each generation that follows is better off than the one before. That’s just basic human progress, right?

So why has Ms Maley got it arse about? Arguing that the most basic test of progress is that we do not leave future generations better off than their predecessors.

She obviously mean to type “worse” rather than “better” and, ordinarily, a brainfade of this measure and level could easily have slotted into a Mediocre Bytes column. But just think of what it all means to production values at one of our revered capital city mastheads.

One of our column compilers spotted the error immediately while reading the hardcopy edition over coffee in bed in his Brisbane home – that’s right, clearly a very early, country, edition of The Sun-Herald that lobbed on his footpath.

But the detail shown at top has been snared from the overnight online edition of the paper, meaning the error has presumably not been corrected over the span of some hours.

Does The Sun-Herald still have subeditors? Do any of our metropolitan dailies have them on staff anymore? The answer is probably no, given the shit we pick up all the time.

Maybe you think this Maley mistype doesn’t really amount to a hill of beans, but we at the MGH still think it’s far from a good look.

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