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Follow-up: The Tory MEP “goof” aftermath

January 11th, 2008 by Andre · 2 Comments

A few things have happened since we first posted about the error made by Tories representing Birmingham, England. The story for those not familiar with it is that representatives for England’s Second City launched a new website recently. The site included a skyline image… of Birmingham, AL.

We’ve learned that the site was up with the error for some time, at least since January 3 when this post first pointed out the error. UK bloggers have been enjoying pointing out the error, one that representatives are calling “a simple mistake”. What’s interesting to us is that it didn’t get fixed until about an hour after the British blogosphere exploded with posts about it (we luckily got ours up in that hour, just before the image was taken down).

Screenshot of Birmingham Sun articleThe Birmingham News’ account today covers most of the bases, but an interesting account comes from The Sun. We’ll let you comment on your thoughts…

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2 comments so far ↓

  • 1 Jarrod // Jan 11, 2008 at 4:42 pm

    Did the news credit you guys with breaking the story around here?

  • 2 Andre // Jan 11, 2008 at 4:49 pm

    no, but they probably didn’t know that we’d posted it…

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