Tag Archives: arkansas democrat-gazette

Creative correction

October 19, 2009 – 8:00 am

ArkansasMake sure to double-check the numbers, the editor said. Okay, we said. Make sure to double-check the address, the editor said. Okay, we said. What a pest. The guy has this hang-up with accuracy. But we did double-check the numbers and address for the Haven of Rest Cemetery and did indeed get them right in Monday’s editorial.
And promptly misspelled the name of the chairman of the Friends of Haven of Rest cemetery’s board of directors. His name is B.J. McCoy, not B.J. McKay.
We apologize.
But our error does give us another reason to mention the cemetery and its friends. They can both use all the help they can get. Link

By Craig Silverman | Posted in Newspapers | Also tagged | Comments

No job for you

November 21, 2007 – 8:00 am

Mary Robin Casteel, an attorney with Wilson & Associates in Little Rock, wasn’t hired recently. She was mistakenly included in Sunday’s Business People column.
This article was published 11/20/2007

By Craig Silverman | Posted in Newspapers | Comments

Editorial admits its geographical error, calls attention to the issue

August 30, 2007 – 8:00 am

arkansasNO WONDER geography needs more emphasis, not less, in Arkansas schools.
We ourselves are an embarrassing case in point: We got our past and current African horrors mixed up in Monday’s editorial. Robert Mugabe is the dictator who’s presided over the ruination of Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, rather than Rwanda, formerly the Belgian trusteeship of Ruanda-Urundi, the scene of a genocide that preceded the one in Darfur, a region of Sudan, formerly the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
The error was entirely our own and not that of our geography teacher in grade school or the old Book of Knowledge, the twin and wholly estimable sources of whatever geographical knowledge we still retain.The map of Africa has changed wildly since we had to draw it and memorize all the capitals back in class, which is no excuse for our mistake.
Rather, our cartographic ignorance is one more strong argument for emphasizing geography, along with history, as a separate discipline in elementary school… Link (sub req’d)

By Craig Silverman | Posted in Newspapers | Also tagged | Comments Off