Regret the Error

FishBowlNY appears to have found a boo boo in Jay McInerney’s New York magazine cover story on The Strokes. It’s in this passage (page three on the web):

Early buzz is strong. Jon Pareles gave it high marks in the Times last week. “Jukebox” became the band’s first Billboard
No. 1 single, shortly after its release in December. And the authority
I trust the most, my 11-year-old son, summed it up this way:
“Definitely better than Room on Fire, at least as good as
Is This It—maybe even better.”

The single is actually called "Juicebox." Says FishBowlNY:

…according to New York magazine’s big feature on the Strokes last week, their song "Jukebox" "became the band’s first Billboard No. 1 single." Let’s see, I’m a real writer, what does Google have to say? Aha! The definitive word, straight from Billboard (or Amazon or StrokesFan.com): Juicebox.

Hear that, Jay McInerney? "Juicebox." Not
"Jukebox." (Yes, I know you correctly identified it later on in the
piece. But still. It was a cover story, and you were supposed to be the
expert. It’s all right, two weeks ago I said that Bill O’Reilly was a lawyer,
and he’s not. Just make the change online, note the correction, and
make sure your 11-year old knows the difference so the kids won’t beat
him up at school).

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