NBC's Today Discovers It's 'Arctic,' Not 'Artic'

April 8th, 2011 4:52 PM

On Friday's NBC Today, as co-host Meredith Vieira spoke with correspondent Ben Fogle about Britain's Prince Harry being temporarily stuck at the North Pole, the headline on screen read: "Cooling His Heels; Prince Harry Stuck in the Artic." Halfway through the segment, the show's graphics department apparently noticed the spelling error, changing it to "Arctic."

The morning news program has done several stories on Prince Harry's travels in recent days, making the mistake all the more odd.

See back-to-back screen shots below:

And the correction:

— Kyle Drennen is a news analyst at the Media Research Center. You can follow him on Twitter here.