Sorry, BUGgers, but we have no exact time for when the above-mentioned fuckup was spotted and remedied but it did happen some time last night at that great institution of logic and professional journalism – the subs (we’re assuming there’s more than one) desk at the Heralds HQ in Sydney.

We’ll explain soon how this great pivotal moment in newspaper production played out at The Sun-Herald overnight but, first, have a gecko at this!

We’ll tell you shortly why FROM FRONT PAGE is so fucking wrong but a short history first.

The subs at The Sun-Herald usually avoid censure by the MGH in our never-ending battle to get Herald production people to get their folios right and why? Because the Saturday night’s subbing shift can usually rely on the powers-that-be totally ignoring the wrap-around (wouldn’t it be lovely if we could all permanently forget Hardly Normal) and folioing the inside fake cover as PAGE ONE! Not a bad safety measure, really.

But what caught the eye of the old, tired, washed-up hacks who compile this column early this morning? That today’s edition where the extracts above and below come from reverted to the system that gives the sister paper, SMH’s subs so much grief – calling the inside front fake cover as page 3!

We can’t recall the last time the Sunday edition did that. Bur they did and some of our compilers muttered “please don’t” as they turned the edition to the page 6 overflow from the Fake Turf story on that PAGE THREE! But they did! FROM FRONT PAGE!

If The Bug through its MGH could have a dollar for every time we’ve told the Heralds subs that a page three of any newspaper can, never, ever, be the cover page or the front page or page one as it sometimes cops, we’d have that many dollars unless it’s been used up to restock the office’s Bundy rum fridge.

To see this happen so soon after yesterday’s column reported our decision to send a specially crafted fridge magnet …. this one…

… to all those subs (we’re assuming there’s more than one) who “worked” a shift at the SMH on Wednesday night has put some of our MGH people on suicide watch.

But guess what happened next at the Heralds building some time last night? The powers-that-be rejigged the folios so that the previous page 3 became page one. While it definitely limits the chances of a folio fuckup, we have no idea when it took place.

Was it sometime during the printing of late editions of the paper – ours was an early country edition – or was it only fixed for the online SMH? We give the SMH absolutely no credit at all for fixing a fuckup that shouldn’t have fucking happened in the first place.

And we’ll stick with our usual observation of too many Herald subs: what a bunch of fucking clowns.

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