5 Great New York Times Corrections I Gchatted my Sister About
by a contributor
from Ben Hoffman, author of Next Time They Will Wow Them With The Shiny Stuff:
“An obituary on Gore Vidal on Wednesday included several errors. Mr. Vidal called William F. Buckley Jr. a crypto-Nazi, not a crypto-fascist, in a television appearance during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. While Mr. Vidal frequently joked that Vice President Al Gore was his cousin, genealogists have been unable to confirm that they were related. And according to Mr. Vidal’s memoir ‘Palimpsest,’ he and his longtime live-in companion, Howard Austen, had sex the night they met, but did not sleep together after they began living together. It is not the case that they never had sex.”
“An article last Sunday about older alumni who have been helped by university career counselors referred imprecisely to David Munson, a 1990 graduate of Lehigh University. Mr. Munson, who lost a job in February when his company was downsized, was speaking generally— not about himself specifically — when he said that newly unemployed people sometimes mope around the house in sweatpants.”
Correction: August 16, 2009 (same article!)
“An article on Aug. 2 about older alumni who have been helped by university career counselors referred imprecisely to comments by a 1990 graduate of Lehigh University who lost his job in February when his company was downsized, and a correction in this space last Sunday misspelled his surname. As the article correctly noted, he is David Monson, not Munson, and he was speaking generally — not about himself — when he said that newly unemployed people sometimes mope around the house in sweatpants.”
3. Correction:
“An earlier version of this post mistakenly referred to the Secret Service agents on Mr. Romney’s team as the defensive line. They were acting as the offensive line as Ann Romney threw a touchdown pass.”
4. Correction: January 31, 2013
“An earlier version of this post stated incorrectly that a service hedgehog would be allowed in a store that sells food in New York. Dogs are the only species of service animal allowed in food establishments, according to the city health department. (Hedgehogs are sometimes used as therapy animals.)”
“An article in The Living Section on April 15 about luxurious topless clubs misstated the number of topless bars in the United States aimed at a white-collar clientele. It is 50 to 60; the total number of topless bars is 1,100.”
(You are wondering how my Internet travels led me to a 20-year-old article on strip clubs. Honestly, I was writing about the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa.)