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They had prepared two versions of the editorial page - one for a win, one for a loss - and planned to select the correct one when the game ended, Thelen said.
A similar mistake hit pages of the New York Post in October, when an editorial criticized the New York Yankees for losing in the seventh game of the playoffs to Boston. The Yankees won the game. The Post caught the error in time to fix it for later editions.
Lakeland reader Willie Strelnik equated the error to bias he sees on news pages and noted some have called for resignations in the Bush administration over problems in Iraq.
`I request, no demand, that your entire editorial staff resign, along with the editor,'' Strelnik wrote.
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