The Grauniad strikes again

Quite the little saga in the movie blog of The Guardian today. The sub-heading was:

“Ricky Gervais’s first film as director purports to show us that honesty is the best policy. But it’s last-reel cop-out seems to tell us the opposite”

Can you spot the deliberate error? It was soon pointed out:

Attention Copy Editor: Please fix the grammatical error in the headline; replace the contraction it’s with the possessive pronoun its. Thank you.

Only to stir the grammar-Nazi Nazis:

No keep it!, sodding grammar Nazis, possessive pronoun my arse we all knew what it meant

Soon to be followed by a retort:

And we all knew it was wrong.

And a resolution:

thanks, changed now.

All in the space of 37 minutes. It’s a jungle out there.