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Arthur D. Hlavaty ([personal profile] supergee) wrote2009-07-23 06:38 am
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The newspaper of record: seven errors in the Walter Cronkite article

Thanx to Lisa Gold: Research Maven
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[personal profile] weofodthignen 2009-07-23 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Bloody fucking Hell. Because of Wikipedia's myopic editorial preference for the NYT I or someone else will now have to go back and re-edit the Cronkite article and leave messages throughout it saying "Yes, they published a correction on this, don't change it back." And that was a pretty damning article overall--I had not realized the misspellings and solecisms at the Times that they refused to hire me to correct extended to people's names!

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