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The Guardian doesn’t have the nickname “The Grauniad” for nothing, a paper likely to spell its own masthead wrong.
The nickname Grauniad was reportedly coined by the British satirical magazine Private Eye. This seems to be confirmed by the following, from The Economist (London) of 27th November 1971:
All the characters of Private Eye’s earliest days survive—Lord Gnome, the Grauniad, Lunchtime O’Booze—giving a curious cosy familiarity to each issue.
The Port Angeles, Wash., Peninsula Daily News had an unfortunate special-section folio problem sometime back. At the top of each page was the Penisnula Daily News. Not great.
Not to be "that guy," but are you talking masthead or nameplate? There seems to be some confusion among people without journalism experience about the meaning.
The nameplate is on A1 and fixed art -- generally a PDF but used to be TIFFs. The masthead (a list of senior staff, usually comprising the editorial board) runs on the editorial page and is on the template, so I can't see how either of these things could lead to misspellings.
Granted, I didn't start until the '90s, so we were well past Linotype but not quite to direct-to-plate. Manual typesetting in the '70s could of course lead to this problem.
The world needs more “those guys”, especially when they actually know what they’re talking about.
I was only quoting the explanation, but as far as I can tell, part of the joke is that the paper was so regularly riddled with typesetting and spelling errors that The Guardian could make an error with an unchanging block that should be almost impossible to get wrong without deliberate effort.
As to whether they meant the nameplate or the masthead, this is a distinction I’d never heard about before, so I’ve learnt something there!
What do you feel?
That I need to get back in the field. UK might be a bit of a stretch, but overall, the sensation is one of "holy fuck, I'm better at this than I realized." The Post was actually not that far away but had a national presence. This time? National is too small of a goal, it would appear.
