The Grauniad on Westpac bank error story
The Times reports the story of the Westpac bank error and the flight of the Rotorua couple. The Guardian ran a story as well. Both stories picked up on the Westpac marketing slogan – Make the most of life.
However The Guardian – legendary for spelling errors and other mistakes, known fondly in UK satirical magazine Private Eye as The Grauniad - suffered a glitch with this story.
The story was preceded by this picture and caption:-
The pair fled the Bay of Plenty, which attracts tourists with its scenery, geysers and mud pools. Photograph: Chris McLennan/Alamy
Now we all know, do we not, that Rotorua is not on the coast. Indeed on The Guardian website is this:-
The following correction was printed in the Guardian’s Corrections and clarifications column, Saturday 23 May 2009.
This article and picture described Rotorua as a tourist city on New Zealand‘s north island “overlooking … the Bay of Plenty”. Rotorua may lie in the Bay of Plenty area, but is 30 miles inland and does not overlook the coast. The bay area our photo showed is near the city of Tauranga, where contrary to the caption geysers are little seen.
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