We Crunked: Regret corrections
Gather near, dear reader, and let us tell you a tale of Crunks in our own house. A tale of cussing, broken links, typos and redundancies. We give thanks to James, Danto, Vincent and Wayne for flogging us with our own errors.
The Crunks:
- One reader drew our attention to the fact that one of our categories was named "Major Fuckups." In objecting to this unnecessary use of vulgarity, he pointed us to this oft-referenced quote: "The usage of offensive language in conversation or print merely covers the fact that the user has run out of intelligent things to say." After trying to figure out why the F-bomb was necessary in this instance we quickly realized that there is indeed no justification. We have therefore changed it to "Major Errors." We regret the error.
- In last week’s edition of "We Crunked: Regret Corrections," we made an attempt to correct this sentence from the original version in "The Year in Crunks": "We therefore present to you our first annual Year In Crunks." It was helpfully pointed out that one cannot refer to the first edition of something as "annual." We changed the sentence to read, "We therefore present to you our first ever Year In Crunks." This sentence also contained an error because saying something is the "first ever" is redundant. The sentence has now been corrected to read: "We therefore present to you our first Year In Crunks." We regret the error and the faulty attempt to correct it.
- Our sidebar, "Ombudsmen," contained a broken link to the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s ombudsman, Kate Parry. It has been corrected. We regret the error.
- Our January 10 edition of, "Ombudsmen Round-Up," contained a misspelling of the word "paper" in this sentence: "Daniel Okrent of The New York Times writes about the selection of photographs in the paper and the one The Times chose to lead with after the tsunami struck." It has been corrected. We regret the error.
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