That's How It Happened

Slate have provided an incredible example of poor editing. Stephan Fatsis who wrote the excellent book Word Freak, has analysed a recent game that broke 3 North American scoring records. 830 points is a great score, but it's still 219 points off the UK record. I'm sure Stephan Fatsis is well aware that 830, is thus not a world record, but Slate have slapped on the headline: "830! How a Massachusetts carpenter got the highest Scrabble score ever."
The equivalent in the UK press is when a Fleet Street reporter gets muddled over "English" and "British". In those cases though, they only manage to offend the Scots, not the whole world.