In my article for the magazine on Jon Huntsman, which went online Monday and appears in print this Sunday, I wrote this line: Common wisdom had it that Obama and his team had shrewdly decided to move Huntsman out of the country and take him off the Republican playing field for 2012 — a not-illogical [...]
In the Talk interview in the Magazine this weekend, Barbara Sinatra, Frank Sinatra’s fourth wife, disputes an account by Gay Talese in a 1966 Esquire article, in which he described Sinatra’s toupees and the woman who cared for them. In taking issue with those details, Barbara Sinatra said her husband always employed men to care [...]
An essay on Page 11 this weekend, about how the media reports on itself, refers incorrectly to a reporter who live-blogged a radio show on which the writer, Bill Keller, appeared. The reporter, Zeke Turner, is a man. Link *Correction March 14, 2011: This headline originally and incorrectly referred to the "NT Times Magazine" instead [...]
If you were to indulge in a bit of stereotyping and imagine the country most likely to host a conference about the pedantic discipline of fact checking, you’d probably arrive on one likely location: Germany. And so it was that I spent the last weekend of March in Hamburg in the offices of the famous [...]
The cover article of The Times Magazine on Sunday reported on whales and the possibility of interspecies communication between them and humans. The final two paragraphs of the article described an occasion in 2005 when a humpback whale became entangled in crab-trap ropes and was freed by a rescue team. Some of the language in [...]
(See update at the bottom of this post.) A photographer whose work appeared in the New York Times Magazine has been accused of digitally manipulating his images. Edgar Martins produced a photo essay entitled "Ruins of the Second Gilded Age." It showed abandoned buildings/construction projects and was featured in the magazine and on the Times [...]
You’d expect a magazine to exercise extra caution when publishing an article about a “vending machine for crows.†It’s a strange idea, not to mention one that was developed for a master’s thesis in a “Interactive Telecommunications Program.” Because the story doesn’t fall into the category of common knowledge, it requires particularly careful editing and [...]
The cover article on Page 52 this weekend about Senator John McCain’s campaign misspells the given name of Mr. McCain’s fellow senator from Arizona and the surname of the governor of Florida, both McCain supporters. The other Arizona senator is Jon Kyl, not John, and the Florida governor is Charlie Crist, not Christ. The article [...]
An article last Sunday about the TV series “Mad Men” referred incorrectly to the history of original series on its network, AMC. “Mad Men†is AMC’s first scripted drama series; the show is not AMC’s maiden voyage in original programming. (That occurred with “Remember WENN,” a comedy about a radio station that ran on the [...]
