12/5 UPDATE: That headline did get changed during the course of the evening, from "Coming Sunday" to "Next Sunday." So some readers were correctly clued. TV
Some readers were fooled by a front-page item Sunday that alerted readers to an upcoming series on the state's broken probation system for criminal offenders. The two suspects accused in the murder of UNC student Eve Carson had fallen through the cracks of the state system. The series follows up on the problems.
The promotional box said "Starting Sunday," followed by a headline that read "North Carolina losing track of probationers."
"I have read the Sunday paper thoroughly once, and scanned it again looking for, 'the start of our three-part series.' There is nothing like it anywhere in the paper," wrote Mark Hamblet. "Where is it? On-line (I looked there, too)? In a blog somewhere?"
The series starts next Sunday, Dec. 7. That headline could have been more precise.
