Two alert readers familiar with the works of American conservative philosopher Ayn Rand have pointed out that a letter in Monday’s Journal was largely plagiarized from a passage in Part 2 of The Fountainhead. The letter is signed “Dominique Francon”, a Fountainhead character to whom the lifted words are attributed in the book. Here’s the [...]
This week’s Regret the Error column on Columbia Journalism Review online looks at two media errors that became fodder for late night comedy. Excerpt below. Click on the headline for the full column. Comedy of Errors Jay Leno has made amusing, mistaken, and otherwise notable newspaper headlines a staple of his show. Recently, his rivals [...]
Comedian Andy Kindler, a frequent guest and occasional correspondent on David Letterman’s show, recently dedicated part of his time on the Late Show to complain about a misquote in Montreal’s daily English language paper, The Gazette. Kindler was interviewed by Gazette columnist Bill Brownstein back in January for a piece about how comics would handle [...]
