LA Times Mistakes Olbermann For Jackass

The Los Angeles Times issued a correction today sure to give MSNBC haters a laugh.

In their TV grid yesterday, they put MTV’s Jackass in the MSNBC line-up where Countdown with Keith Olbermann was supposed to go. That’s right – Jackass instead of Olbermann. Here’s the full correction:

FOR THE RECORD

TV listings: The Prime-Time TV grid in Thursday’s Calendar section mistakenly listed MTV’s “Jackass” show on the MSNBC cable schedule at 7 and 10 p.m. where instead MSNBC’s “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” should have been listed.

In noting the correction on the LAT Top of the Ticket blog, Andrew Malcolm had some fun with the mistake: “A few thousand people might have tuned into MSNBC, the Obama administration’s favorite cable channel, expecting to see a “Jackass” show, and instead they’d have found Olbermann. Worse, what if nobody noticed the difference?”

Here’s our question: was this the work of an editor, jokingly putting the show there for fun and forgetting to take it out before it went to print? And will the LAT make the “Worst Persons” list tonight?

(h/t Johnny Dollar)

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