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from: Barb Jernigan
date: 2003-06-17 07:59:40
subject: Re: The press? Depress!

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:19:21 -0400 Karen Rhodes
 writes:
> At 09:54 AM 6/16/2003 -0500, Gumbie Tygress wrote:
> 
> >NYT syndrome ain't nothin' new -- tygress
> >[Indeed, the Statesman printed a correction/apology yesterday from
> >quoting The Guardian, and The Guardian had muffed it. A reader 
> pointed
> >out the original "oopsie" and retraction to the 'Statesman, and 
> the
> >editors actually said, "we should have checked better."]
> 
> They've become so self-referential it isn't even funny.  Never mind
> checking with a knowledgeable source, just reprint the errors that 
> appear
> in other papers!  

Hey, at least they caught it and mea culpa'd -- on the FRONT page of that
section, too....

> Veloci--documentation?  what's that?--raptor

the thing you sacrifice to deadline, tygress

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