The Denver Post that arrived on my doorstop must have been an early edition... '12 of 13 miners found alive' with a different photo.

However, the Rocky Mountain News I received got it right despite the bad hed ('Joy short-lived'). The front linked on the left shows their initial stab at it.

After looking at Newseum this morning, I'm tempted to never use the word 'joy' in a hed again. It's too easy and most likely a bad generalization. I imagine a number of the family members and friends waiting there weren't going to be filled with joy until they saw someone come out of there alive. It was probably more gut-wrenching than anything to sit there for two days, waiting and getting conflicting news while still having no physical evidence of what's going on.

I hope "The Daily Show" will take a look at all the speculation the TV networks threw out; they'll be more than deserving after throwing around the early editions with the 'They're alive!' heds.

I can't believe the KC star didn't change the photo. I wish I could read the caption.

Scott: I wasn't there when the Star changed the headline last night (and I wish the photo could've been changed) but that was a press issue no doubt. At the time they sent that page, they could've just got the story and black plate changed.

I'll have to find out the whole story when I get to work, but, that's usually all we can do after midnight.

gooch.

Scott: The Rocky also used one photo for the early and late editions, but considering they're a tab, I suppose it's apples and oranges.

Ah yes, in this computer age I sometimes forget that things can't always be done instantly.

The caption on the second edition photo reflected the changing news: "Reacting to what turned out to be miscommunication Darlene Groves (left) and Crystina Neeling erupted in joy late Tuesday in Tallmansville, W.Va., Groves and Neeling are the sister-in-law and niece of miner Jerry Groves."

Check out the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ... they were the closest big paper to the accident. The paper I got at home this morning had it right.

Checking on TFP at Newseum, it seems like the smaller and quick-printing papers in the Central and Mountain time zones got hammered the hardest: They had time to update but the trucks were mainly gone and the newsrooms had cleared out when the jackholes in West Virginia finally said "um, well,...)

Many East Coast papers had versions of the story on the streets with outdated information but not the horrifically incorrect news.

And the West coast? Well, yet another reason for Neil Diamond to sing, "LA's fine, the sun shine's most the time, and the feeling is laid-back."

--C

Yeah, I was told we got the correct info on fully 2/3 of our papers in Colorado Springs. The only ones wrong: Those in stores and on racks. So, our subscribers are happy, but we didn't help ourselves with casual readers. D'oh.