New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt has weighed in on the paper’s recent, error-riddled story about Walter Cronkite. The story, written by television critic Alessandra Stanley, resulted in two corrections, one of which was for seven mistakes. I wrote about the mistakes, and Stanley’s history of error, in a recent column for Columbia Journalism [...]
A correction from the New York Times: An appraisal on Saturday about Walter Cronkite’s career included a number of errors. In some copies, it misstated the date that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed and referred incorrectly to Mr. Cronkite’s coverage of D-Day. Dr. King was killed on April 4, 1968, not [...]
New York Times public editor Byron Calame seems to have found his voice with a column about the Geraldo Rivera/Alessandra Stanley dispute. Calame watched the video footage in question and says there was no "nudge," meaning that Stanley’s description of one is false. Executive editor Bill Keller’s response to Calame seems to admit this. [UPDATE: [...]
A television review yesterday about "How I Met Your Mother" and "Out of Practice," on CBS, misstated the name of the popular show, ended last season, that the network is trying to replace with another hit. It is "Everybody Loves Raymond," not "All About Raymond." Link And, yes, this is a "Stanley correction." Report an [...]
Are corrections a good indicator of a larger problem? That was one of the questions we posed to Seth Mnookin in a recent interview. Now two journalists are using corrections to question the competence of New York Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley. First, Phil Rosenthal of the Chicago Tribune penned a Sunday column that listed [...]
