Communication Breakdown

For 163 years and tens of thousands of editions, The Des Moines Register has delivered the news that Iowa depends upon.

Now you can depend on them to just deliver faux pas and the scientific community is united in that fact.

The latest case in point is in the online edition

(Live) Romney speaks at Drake University in Des Moines

Complete with the caption under this picture.

Attendees to a Mitt Romney speech at Drake University in Des Moines wait for the likely 2012 GOP presidential candidate to take the stage. / Bryon Houlgrave/The Register

The problem is that Romney, as correctly reported in the story but incorrect in the stories URL, is speaking at the Hotel Fort Des Moines.

Somebody should be embarrassed, but the Register won't be.

As a matter of fact, you'll have to start paying for errors like that.