The Daily News sports desk is starting to look more shaky than Yankees error-prone outfielder Clint Frazier.
The latest blooper came in the deck of a banner headline in the May 28 print edition on the passing of Bill Buckner, where the News committed the journalistic equivalent of having a ground ball bounce off the Red Sox first baseman’s glove for a World Series error.
“Though he was haunted by ’86 Series gaffe, great moments far outway [sic] the bad for Buckner,” read the banner headline alongside a full-page picture of the late Buckner.
The word “outway,” of course, should have been “outweigh.”
Since much of the headline and design work was farmed out to a universal copy desk in Chicago run by owner Tribune Publishing, it is hard to say which city is most to blame for the blooper.
One News sports insider conceded, “We’re very thin at the moment.”
The errors come as the troubled tabloid faces a claim of age discrimination filed by 54-year-old freelancer Chris Sheridan.
He had been writing a weekly NBA column from January to April. When he said he noticed errors getting added to his stories by editors, he said he offered to come off the bench to help them on the copy desk.
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“I’d been with the Associated Press for 18 years and did a ton of desk work,” Sheridan said.
“People there are overworked,” Sheridan said. “I figured I could help them out.” He said he approached Kyle Wagner, director of digital audience development, sports, which is the title the News gives to its chief sports staffer.
According to Sheridan’s attorney Bob Levy, Wagner “made clear to Chris that he didn’t fit the profile; they were looking to hire younger people.”
Sheridan promptly filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging age discrimination.
Daily News in-house legal counsel Matthew Leish contends: “Mr. Sheridan’s claims are factually and legally baseless.”