From the Eastern Echo here in Michigan, a 72pt headline got printed for a piece about the 1992 presidential debates:

"Debate III story, really late dkdkkdkkdkdkk"

One headline on a late story, you can see how that happens, but a whole page of dummy type? How many people would have to be snoozing for that to happen?

Whole page of dummy type? Not as hard as it sounds. Say you're down to your last edition, the desk is gone except for the "late person," the story has looked fine the umpteen times he or she has looked at it, and at the last second the computer or the composing-room staff does something that causes all those words to turn to x's and y's -- or, more insidiously, a real story containing real words, just not the real words that are supposed to be there.

That's where a final spell check comes in handy. But only if you deliberately misspell dummy text, I guess.

Is "lorem ipsum" in YOUR spellcheck dictionary? :-)

My local paper, the Wilmington Star News in Wilmington, NC sent out papers today - with no photos in their news... Blank newsprint... They issued statements that they had been hit with a bad virus, but what kind of night would you have to have for that to happen! yikes. Pages and Pages of empty newsprint, it was sad.