Gawker and The Huffington Post both discovered an error in Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley’s review of the Tabloid Wars TV show. (Why mention her by name? See here, here and here. ) Notes Gawker:
Speaking of Tabloid Wars, we couldn’t help noting the following in yesterday’s NYT review of the show:
"Even Mr. Morgan however, turns out to have a heart. After reporting
an incorrect rumor about Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, Mr. Morgan is
dispatched at a punitively early hour to Hackensack, N.J., to report on
free prostate cancer screenings for poor men."
All well and good, except the erroneous report was about Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner.
Who wrote this piece? We think you’ll be shocked when we reveal the author to be… Alessandra Stanley!
We had just been thinking how we hadn’t seen a Stanley correction a while. So we checked in Nexis and, including this most recent story/forthcoming correction, she appears to have had nine corrections to the 79 stories she has written this year. (Four of those corrections came in January.) That’s a bit of an improvement over her correction rate of last year.
