Words cannot describe the brilliance of this photo. The shallow depth of field and the stuff around her make it look like they photographed her Barbie, not herself.
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This is the last entry in my collection of NY Times apologies. There is no way to possibly top this: The NY Times apologizes at great length about the mistakes it made in Walter Cronkite’s obituary and another article about him. It’s pretty open and names several people who, for a variety of reasons, did not do their jobs properly.
But what is worse are the comments; they’re simply brutal. And I don’t feel that most of them are justified. Sure, making seven or eight mistakes in one story is pretty bad, especially for a newspaper with the NY Times’ reputation. But the mistakes are really rather minor, and they’re obviously embarrassed, so I don’t get what all the outrage is about. Especially because these are comments on the apology, not the original story. I wonder how many readers would have been able to spot those mistakes, or took away wrong information from the article.
I wonder if they just did that to be cute – or if they really felt that they needed to correct an editorial comment published 49 years earlier that nobody could possibly remember. Anyway, another one for my collection of NYTimes corrections.
From the NYTimes feature on 1969.
From a New York Times article on Walter Cronkite. They sure take their corrections serious at the NYTimes. The last sentence made me crack up.
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An earlier version of this article incorrectly referred to a news organization for which Walter Cronkite worked. At the time, it was called United Press, not United Press International. The earlier version also misstated the date of the first moon landing; it was July 20, 1969, not July 26. And it misspelled Telstar.
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Spock Obama - great picture, not so great opinion piece on Obama’s use of logic and when it might fail (or something).
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