media corrections of the year! Hilarity!

MnFats

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Wed Dec-14-05 03:16 AM
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media corrections of the year! Hilarity!

Edited on Wed Dec-14-05 03:17 AM by MnFats

also, and less funny, is a plagiarism update
but some of these corrections are a riot

http://www.regrettheerror.com/2005/12/crunks_05_the_y.html

"The Strange Bedfellows Award
Congratulations to The Guardian, which managed to make two people roll over in their graves with just one error:

"In our G2 cover story about Hunter S Thompson yesterday we mistakenly attributed to Richard Nixon the view that Thompson represented "that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character". On the contrary, it was what Thompson said of Nixon."

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MrBenchley

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Wed Dec-14-05 06:22 AM
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1. Thank you...those werre hilarious!

From the Dallas Morning News:

Norma Adams-Wade's June 15 column incorrectly called Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk a socialist. She is a socialite.

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