HAN RECALLS 1 MILLION COPIES OF WEB ARTICLE
HAMMOND, Louisiana — One million copies of a news story posted on Hammond Action News this weekend have been recalled from the internet, after readers became outraged over an expletive used in the article’s headline which was allegedly caused by a typo.
The story, CHARTER CABLE TOTALLY MUCKS MOON, was published digitally at least one million times under a faulty headline in which the letter M in “muck” was accidentally replaced by an F.
“We do apologize to all of our readers who encountered this inappropriate story headline,” wrote a veteran member of the highly-experienced and award-winning HAN PR team, “but unfortunately it may be several months before the correct headline is restored for everyone.”
Restoration has been no easy task as hundreds of foreign workers in Malaysia, the website’s outsourcing nation of choice, sift through billions of lines of code to change a single word in over one million digital copies of the article.
“While we have undoubtedly lost thousands of readers over this, we do see the humor in the situation because ‘muck’ and ‘fuck’ can sometimes be used interchangeably,” stated another worker from the news website, “I mean, had it been ‘shit’ or ‘ass,’ then people would have immediately known that it must be a typo.”
Many readers have been less than impressed by HAN’s efforts to clean up its act, as some critics maintain the explicit headline was very much intended.
“It’s the sick, twisted, demented people over at the Hammond Action News website who think it’s funny to use swear words in their stupid arti” an angry woman posted on her Twitter profile after reaching the word limit.
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