While covering a Michael Jackson lawsuit in which he just plum forgot to appear for a bunch of Y2K performances, the BBC had conflated the beginnings of two paragraphs, creating the following:
They meant to say the “singer’s lawyer” as they did in the subsequent paragraph. However, the idea that a bunch of back-up singers were representing MJ in court amused me to no end.
I pictured a musical with a chorus line singing “Here comes the judge… Here comes the judge…”
For some excellently amusing things like this, go to here and click on “Take 2” on the right, towards the top.
When the redesigned $100 bills were introduced a few years ago, one news channel – I think it was CNN – had a teaser that showed a closeup of the bill’s new picture of Ben Franklin with a voiceover saying, “Why is this president smiling?”
Just last week a MSNBC anchor (forgot which one) was talking to their reporter in Havana right after Charley went through there. The anchor asked how badly was Guantanamo Bay effected or something to that effect. 
This is an anchor on a national news broadcast? Doesn’t anyone know how to read a map anymore? Thats like asking someone in New Orleans how they were effected by Charley.
I once heard a TV newsdrone say the state would be stepping up enforcement and writing lots of tickets for people who were “DWI, or drunk while intoxicated.”
My browser’s home page gives me stories from AP or somesuch. After a recent NASCAR Nextel Cup race, the writer described Boris Said waiting to take over for another driver, but he wasn’t needed. The proofreader, seeing an apparent extra word, made it “relief driver Boris.”
On 9/11, I heard several mentions to “President Clinton,” when they meant Bush. But I guess that’s understandable.
When the plane went down in Queens on 11/12/01, the BBC newscaster stated “There was another tragedy in New York City, but this time on the other side of the Hudson River.” Actually, that’s the East River.
Not quite a mistake, but Chuck Scarborough said “We have a live helicopter report from the shoot out in Brooklyn,” then looked down at his monitor and went white. He looked up and said “We don’t have that report. And here’s a commercial.” Turns out the helicopter had develop a problem and was spinning down out of control. The Channel7eyewitnessnews helicopter was right above it and got an amazing film of it.