Posted on January 5, 2009, 8:00 am, by Craig Silverman, under
Newspapers.
Seattle weekly The Stranger makes an annual, hilarious accounting of its mistakes. Some entries are corrections for factual errors; others are regrets of an entirely different nature. Some samples: The February 14 issue of The Stranger referred to Seattle resident Tae Rhee as a “woman.” In fact, Tae Rhee is a man. We regret the [...]
Nate Lippens, a freelance art critic whose work has appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and The Stranger, has been exposed as a plagiarist.* Editor & Publisher has a story about his thefts, which were exposed by the Post-Intelligencer in a May 15 story and Note to Readers on the 14: Work in the Seattle P-I [...]
Posted on January 13, 2006, 8:00 am, by Craig Silverman, under
Newspapers.
We previously directed you to the strange and hilarious corrections of the Stranger, Seattle’s wonderful alt-weekly. While definitely over the top, at least they give you the impression that the paper puts some thought into its corrections. Recently, however, the Stranger took things to a whole new level. Its theater editor recently confused two well [...]