Those four levels of editors
By Matthew Hoy on December 29, 2005
Shocker! Los Angeles Times reporter doesn't check her source and ends up publishing an April Fools quote as fact on Page A1 of the paper.
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[...] As Bradley J. Fikes (who tipped me to this) notes, Polonium-209 has a half-life of about 103 years — far longer than 138 days. There are other isotopes with longer half-lives. Fikes asks the obvious question: “How did this pass through the LA Times’ legendary four levels of editors?” [...]