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Looks like we’ll have to run a correction. When something like this happens, by the way, it isn’t solely the fault of the columnist; that piece was read by several editors, including me, before it was published.
Tim, if you start accepting responsibility for errors and correcting them you’ll never get that job as a columnist for the New York Times. You need to follow Paul Krugman’s lead and offer only faux corrections that are really just reworded regurgitations of the same misleading information.
Posted by Randal Robinson on 2005 09 22 at 09:54 AM • permalinkThe problem is, that does sound like something Robertson might say. Hasn’t he previously warned Florida that it was risking meteor showers and hurricanes for having “gay days” at Disneyworld? Still, a hurricane for a lesbian hosting the Emmys? Maybe for a NASCAR race or something, but not the Emmys.
You could follow the Gail Collins’ method of handling Maureen Dowd’s errors and simply say that you’ve spoken with the columnist and he has assured you that he has corrected it in a subsequent column. Even if he hasn’t. (Which Maureen didn’t). And hope everyone just forgets about it.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 09 22 at 10:17 AM • permalinkSet the standards high, Tim. Put any corrections in a prominent location in the front section. Maybe the NYT will get the message.
I agree tim. Do it as JeffS suggests…and it will give us back hope.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2005 09 22 at 10:33 AM • permalinkYou’ve hit the big time, the LA Times claims it has only 4 editors that check all the articles and columns. Congratulations!
Posted by Pat Patterson on 2005 09 22 at 10:48 AM • permalinkIt would have been even funnier if there had been a memo.
There’s plenty of time, Rebecca. Tim can whip up a backfated version on his computer, fake a signature, xerox it a couple of times, and send it to some anonymous source in Texas, who leaks it to the media.
Hey, where I have heard that before…..?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 09 22 at 11:39 AM • permalinkKudos for doing a correction, Tim.
The sorry part is that it sounded entirely believable that some tub thumping ratbag would come out with a statement like that, and most of us just shrug and have a cackle at the pub about the “crazy Seppo preacher”
“Fake but believable”?
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2005 09 22 at 12:09 PM • permalinkHasn’t he previously warned Florida that it was risking meteor showers and hurricanes for having “gay days” at Disneyworld?
I’m glad you brought that up. The story I heard was that the next big hurricane that made landfall after he said that hit Virginia Beach, Virginia, home of his Christian Broadcasting Network. Sounds too good to be true, and I couldn’t confirm it in Snopes. Anybody know the facts on this?
Speaking of satire, Kate Moss scores endorsement deal with Colombian drug cartel.
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Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2005 09 22 at 04:45 PM • permalinkSadly, though, I read a non-satire letter to the editor in today’s New Zealand Herald saying that the recent hurricanes were God’s punishment on Bush for not signing Kyoto.
Posted by brucey bonus on 2005 09 22 at 06:45 PM • permalink
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Set the standards high, Tim. Put any corrections in a prominent location in the front section. Maybe the NYT will get the message.