The Tampa Tribune today is apologizing on its Web site after its print edition mistakenly included an editorial predicated on the Lightning losing last night's Game Seven of the Stanley Cup Finals. While the Lightning, of course, won the game, the editorial in today's print edition reads, "The Tampa Bay Lightning didn't win the [NHL's] Stanley Cup last night. But the team had a championship season nevertheless. Its great run expanded the Lightning's fan base and bolstered its financial standing, and it generated excitement and pride throughout the community." Tampa Tribune Editorial Page Editor Rosemary Goudreau told THE DAILY the newspaper "prepared two editorials, one for either outcome. When we saw the Lightning had won, we put the proper editorial on the computerized page, printed it out and eliminated the other version. Yet still somehow the other version made it in the paper. We don't know how." Goudreau said the incorrect editorial ran in all printed versions of today's paper, and while she did not know the exact number of printed copies, she said that there were more copies than normal due to the Lightning's win. The first apology includes the correct editorial and is signed by Goudreau, and another is from Tampa Tribune Publisher & President Gil Thelen.
SAME OL' STORY: The Tampa Tribune's mistake brings back memories of a similar error by the N.Y. Post on October 17, 2003. The N.Y. tabloid had two editorials prepared for the day after Game Seven of the Red Sox-Yankees ALCS and ran the one based on the Red Sox winning, which did not happen (THE DAILY).
