I can play at this game. Pictured above. Walter Cronkite and Princess Leah on the Dumont Network.
Corrections – Correction – NYTimes.com — The corrections section of the NYT, cited here, is getting hilarious. Insofar as the Walter Cronkite tribute (corrections shown below) you have to wonder what exactly the paper actually got right!
Corrections:
An appraisal on Saturday about Walter Cronkite’s career included a number of errors. In some copies, it misstated the date that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed and referred incorrectly to Mr. Cronkite’s coverage of D-Day. Dr. King was killed on April 4, 1968, not April 30. Mr. Cronkite covered the D-Day landing from a warplane; he did not storm the beaches. In addition, Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, not July 26. “The CBS Evening News” overtook “The Huntley-Brinkley Report” on NBC in the ratings during the 1967-68 television season, not after Chet Huntley retired in 1970. A communications satellite used to relay correspondents’ reports from around the world was Telstar, not Telestar. Howard K. Smith was not one of the CBS correspondents Mr. Cronkite would turn to for reports from the field after he became anchor of “The CBS Evening News” in 1962; he left CBS before Mr. Cronkite was the anchor. Because of an editing error, the appraisal also misstated the name of the news agency for which Mr. Cronkite was Moscow bureau chief after World War II. At that time it was United Press, not United Press International.
and now you have the rest of the story! 😛
Symptomatic of the state of journalism and journalism schools. Nobody wants to start out and carry the water. Everybody thinks they are the next Woodward and Bernstein. They’re all too good to do the grunt work.
But, given the decline of journalism, perhaps they need that kind of big kill to even get a job.
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009)
They couldn’t even get his name right.
Most of this story should have already be in the can, ready to flesh out the story. Its not like his passing was unexpected seeing he was 92 yrs old. Or have newspapers eliminated the fact checking portion of the newsroom?
At least they’re still running and printing the corrections. How long until the “corrections” page simply contains a URL address, which points to a dead link?
What really should make us wonder is this. If they could so badly screw up Walter Cronkite’s obit, in the eyes of all the world.
HOW BADLY ARE THEY SCREWING UP EACH AND EVERY OTHER STORY??
http://timeswatch.com/
The Public Editor/ombudsman has a critique.
http://nytimes.com/2009/08/02/opinion/02pubed.html?_r=3&ref=opinion
It’s not surprising, as the NY Times uses a Revisionist History book as reference materials.
Liberalism at it’s best!
Sitting at a campfire with three or four grandchildren gathered ’round: No, really, I remember a time when the NYT checked it’s facts before they published an article. They actually had these people called ‘editors’ who checked a reporter’s work before it was printed. You know what else? They always had at least TWO sources of information before they’d go with a story. Nowadays they’re just a liberal National Enquirer. What’s that, Tommy? Oh, well. The National Enquirer was a sort of newspaper…
I go with # 6.
Where I live we see headlines on the front page everyday, that have little to do with the story once you begin to read the story at hand. Its appauling and pure sensationalism.. very sad…
You may see a headline Like “PORN RING HELD” and in fact it is a story about pirated CD/DVD’s that were seized, and 1% of the number of CD/DVD’s were possible porn titles.. just another good example of our modern world today.
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No wonder the Times is going bankrupt. The perfect examples are in #7 and #8.
With #7’s link showing bias in Times reporting juxtaposed with #8’s link where the Times excuses itself for bad reporting;
It has become evident why the times is going bankrupt.
“Both of my daughters participate in a student-run theater group called Act 2 Act whose purpose is to raise money for human-rights causes. They are rehearsing The Diary of Anne Frank, to be performed this weekend. They have been doing local radio interviews to promote the play.
My twelve-year-old is playing Anne, and her director — the founder of the group — is 16. They did an interview by phone with an NPR correspondent. She asked some odd, leading questions such as “Isn’t this the first time you’ve ever done something helpful like this?” and “What does this have to do with President Obama?” The answer to the first question is “No, we do this sort of thing regularly,” and the answer to the second is, “Well, nothing.” The kids were really put on the spot. It was all strange and disconcerting.
Well, everything became clear when the interview aired later in the evening. The correspondent shaped the piece to insinuate that the kids had been inspired by Barack Obama to start this theater company and do this play.”
>Until the Cronkite errors, she was not even in the top 20 among reporters and editors most responsible for corrections this year. Now, she has jumped to No. 4 and will again get special editing attention.
Nice to know they at least have a process, but if she’s #4, then it looks like a systemic flaw.
#14
All hail the Messiah Obomba.