My Favorite Alessandra Stanley Corrections

I’ve assembled my Top 10 of Alessandra Stanley’s corrections. Here they are.

1. Correction: June 11, 2004, Friday A TV Watch article on Monday about the season finale of ”The Sopranos” on HBO misstated the outcome of an attack by the character Tony B. on his Korean boss in an earlier episode. The boss was injured, not killed. It also referred incorrectly to a member of Johnny Sack’s mob killed by Tony B. He was not a captain. The article also misstated a concern of Uncle Junior during a conversation with Tony Soprano, when Junior was fixated on a gift he had ordered for a sick friend. The issue was whether he had given the right address for the friend, not the right phone number.

2. Correction: July 24, 2004, Saturday The TV Watch column in Weekend yesterday gave an incorrect cable channel in some copies for ”John Kerry: Bringing the War Home,” on Sunday night. It will be on MSNBC, as shown in the program listing, not on ESPN.

3. Correction: Feb. 3, 2006 A television review on Jan. 2 about “Rollergirls,” a documentary-style reality series on A&E, misidentified the player who explained another player’s absence by saying, “She had some family issues to deal with, and she also messed up her foot at the Jell-O wrestling.” It was Cha Cha, not Lux.

4. Correction: January 31, 2004, Saturday The TV Weekend column yesterday about the political comedian Dennis Miller and his new talk show referred incorrectly in some copies to the background of Adm. James Stockdale, whose performance as a vice-presidential candidate was a discussion topic. The admiral ran as an independent in 1992 with Ross Perot, not as a Republican in 1996 with John McCain, who was not a nominee.

5. Correction: October 6, 1998, Tuesday An article on Sept. 24 about followers of the late Italian priest Padre Pio referred incorrectly to his order, the Capuchins. They are friars, not monks. The article also referred incorrectly to St. Francis of Assisi. He was not a priest.

6. Correction: June 6, 2007 The TV Watch column on Friday, about Fred D. Thompson, the former senator and actor on “Law & Order,” who has taken steps to run for president, misstated the year of the Senate Watergate hearings, when he was named minority counsel for the committee investigating the scandal. It was 1973, not 1974.

7. Correction: October 30, 2004, Saturday Because of an editing error, the TV Watch article yesterday, about television on the eve of the election in Florida, a swing state, translated the name of a Spanish-language program incorrectly. The program, ”El Gordo y la Flaca,” is known as ”The Scoop and the Skinny” (not ”The Fat Man and the Skinny Man”).

8. Correction: June 13, 1999, Sunday The What’s Doing column on May 23, about Venice, misstated the relationship between Coosje van Bruggen and Claes Oldenburg, whose work will be shown at the Biennale. The exhibition is a collaboration between Ms. van Bruggen and Mr. Oldenburg; she is not his assistant. The column also misstated the exhibition’s title. It is ”Claes Oldenburg Coosje van Bruggen,” not ”Large Scale Projects.”

9. Correction: Dec. 9, 2005, Friday: A television review on Wednesday about “Epitafios,” a detective series from Argentina on HBO Signature, referred incorrectly to Jorge Luis Borges in citing Argentina’s long tradition of detective fiction. While he wrote detective stories, his writings did not include any novels.

10. Correction: March 6, 2008 The TV Watch column, in some editions on Wednesday, about coverage of the presidential primaries on Tuesday night, misstated the year the war in Iraq started, a night on which MSNBC drew its highest rating until its broadcast of the Democratic debate last week. It was March 19, 2003 — not 2002.

Don Ohlmeyer Is No Le Anne Schreiber

Excuse me while I back up. Since I’m less than a week old, there will be some old stuff here.

I see now why ESPN replaced Le Anne Schreiber with Don Ohlmeyer as their ombudsman. Whereas Schreiber brought a reporter’s instinct and work ethic to her columns, answering tough questions about ESPN’s decision making, Ohlmeyer seems more like an off-the-record PR man. The off-the-record PR man never stops being a PR man. He’ll still ra-ra his employer, but in his desire to be friends with the reporter (not really friends, but a sympathetic figure) he will make a slight admission of imperfection about his employer. So it is with Ohlmeyer.

After a horrendous debut column which seemed to be dictated and transcribed by an ESL student, Ohlmeyer returned last month.

Schreiber was good at talking to the ESPN executives and on-air talent. You could tell her questions were tough and they pushed people to their limits as far as how much they were going to say.

Ohlmeyer, a former television producer (and ruiner of Saturday Night Live) shares neither the interest in reporting or pushing the suits at ESPN. Instead he relies on old anecdotes – all 25 years old or more – about himself or people he has worked with. For example,

- He lauds Don Meredith, Frank Gifford and Howard Cosell, who last worked together as a three-man team in 1978.
- He lauds Dick Enberg, Al Maguire and Billy Packer as a three-man broadcasting team who started together in 1978.
- He even lauds the Jets-Dolphins game in 1980 which aired without announcers.

What do all of these things have in common? Don Ohlmeyer presided over all of them.

When he’s not giving examples of his own accomplishments he drones on about what we should look for in a three-man announcing team. Jesus, Don, how long does it take you to explain this shit?

Anyway, Ohlmeyer’s September column is in three parts.

He likes Jon Gruden, though Dan Levy at The Sporting News disagrees.

He likes the Little League World Series coverage (way to pick the hard-hitting stuff, Don!)

He does not like Sorority Row, the slasher movie set on a college campus which came and went out of theaters quicker than the Tri-Lambs got in and out of Pi Delta Pi.

His e-mailers, whom he must have taken with him in his journey back to 1978, remind him that Ted Bundy killed some sorority sisters that year at Florida State.

So he calls up the advertising dude and says, “Yo, why did you run ads for that movie during a Florida State game?”

The advertising dude says, “We gotta pay the bills dude and it’s not like little kids are watching this shit.”

Then that’s it. No sort of Schreiberian follow-up. Does Ohlmeyer blame ESPN for airing ads of a movie about sorority girls getting killed during a game being played by a school where one of the world’s most famous serial killers killed sorority girls?

You can’t help but feel sympathy for those who were unexpectedly catapulted back into what was so clearly a traumatic event. A serial killer should be the furthest thing from a viewer’s mind when watching the Seminoles play the Hurricanes. However, it’s difficult to fault ESPN for not catching the Bundy-Florida State connection. The tragedy happened more than 30 years ago and wouldn’t necessarily be a top-of-mind consideration for someone reviewing a commercial for air.

Would you say, Don, that something that happened 30 years ago would still be memorable? Like fucking Cosell-Meredith-Gifford-Maguire-Enberg-Packer-Jets-Dolphins-Ted Bundy?

So, ESPN is off the hook in Ohlmeyer’s book?

Put the “Sorority Row” spots in “SportsCenter,” NFL, MLB or other such programs, but a campus slasher movie strikes too close to home in a college football game.

So, it’s the old it’s-not-your-fault-but-don’t-it-again routine.

Let’s review. E-mailers liked Jon Gruden. He did too. E-mailers liked Little League. He did too. E-mailers didn’t like Sorority Row. He didn’t either. But, it wasn’t ESPN’s fault.

And, he ruined Saturday Night Live.

Don Ohlmeyer: New MNF trio deft at dance of a three-man booth – ESPN

Alessandra Stanley’s List Of Corrections

I don’t want to pile on Alessandra Stanley, The New York Times’ error-prone television critic. But, what else have I got to do today? I put Stanley’s name and “correction appended” into the Times’ search box. It returned 35 pages worth of results. I weeded out the double entries, the production, editing, caption errors, and one really lame one. So, here’s what I came up with:

Correction: Sept. 9, 2006 The TV Watch column in Weekend yesterday, about the ABC mini-series “The Path to 9/11,” referred incorrectly to a conclusion of the commission that investigated the terror attacks. The commission said the accusation that President Clinton had ordered air strikes against Osama bin Laden in August 1998 to distract attention from the Monica Lewinsky scandal was one of several factors that “likely had a cumulative effect on future decisions about the use of force” against Mr. bin Laden. It did not conclude that the scandal distracted the Clinton administration from the terrorist threat.

Correction: January 19, 2007 A television review in Weekend last Friday about “24” misstated the method the president’s sister uses to destroy personnel files sought by the F.B.I. She deletes them from a computer; she doesn’t shred them.

Correction: June 27, 2008 The TV Watch column on June 19, about Michelle Obama’s appearance as a co-host on “The View,” referred incorrectly to her mention of her gratitude to Laura Bush after Mrs. Obama was criticized for saying she was really proud of her country for the first time and Mrs. Bush sympathized with her. Mrs. Obama said that she had sent a note to Mrs. Bush, not that Mrs. Bush had sent a note to her.

Correction: Nov. 1, 2005, Tuesday: The TV Watch column last Tuesday, about “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central, misstated the “word of the day” invented for the show’s feature “The Word.” It was “truthiness,” not “trustiness.”

Correction: May 26, 2006 The TV Watch column in some copies yesterday, about the season finale of “American Idol,” referred incorrectly to Clay Aiken, a former contestant who appeared on the results show on Wednesday night. He was the runner-up in 2003, not the winner. The article also misspelled the surname of one of the finalists this year. He is Elliott Yamin, not Yasmin.

Correction: July 13, 2008 A review on June 29 about “The Spies of Warsaw,” by Alan Furst, misstated the title of a Balzac work to which Furst’s novels were compared. It is “The Human Comedy.” (“The Human Condition” is a literal translation of “La Condition Humaine,” the title of a novel by André Malraux known in English as “Man’s Fate.”)

Correction: May 15, 2004, Saturday A TV Watch article on May 6 about the end of the NBC series “Friends” and “Frasier” misstated the political backdrop of the economic recession that preceded the good times that were the setting of “Friends.” It occurred during George H. W. Bush’s presidency, not also during Ronald Reagan’s. The article also misstated the number of television actors who have matched Kelsey Grammer’s record of playing the same character for 20 years. Besides James Arness, who played Matt Dillon on “Gunsmoke,” Milburn Stone played Doc Adams on that show for 20 years.

Correction: July 22, 2009, Wednesday An appraisal on Saturday about Walter Cronkite’s career included a number of errors. In some copies, it misstated the date that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed and referred incorrectly to Mr. Cronkite’s coverage of D-Day. Dr. King was killed on April 4, 1968, not April 30. Mr. Cronkite covered the D-Day landing from a warplane; he did not storm the beaches. In addition, Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, not July 26. ”The CBS Evening News” overtook ”The Huntley-Brinkley Report” on NBC in the ratings during the 1967-68 television season, not after Chet Huntley retired in 1970. A communications satellite used to relay correspondents’ reports from around the world was Telstar, not Telestar. Howard K. Smith was not one of the CBS correspondents Mr. Cronkite would turn to for reports from the field after he became anchor of ”The CBS Evening News” in 1962; he left CBS before Mr. Cronkite was the anchor. Because of an editing error, the appraisal also misstated the name of the news agency for which Mr. Cronkite was Moscow bureau chief after World War II. At that time it was United Press, not United Press International. Correction: August 1, 2009, Saturday An appraisal on July 18 about Walter Cronkite’s career misstated the name of the ABC evening news broadcast. While the program was called ”World News Tonight” when Charles Gibson became anchor in May 2006, it is now ”World News With Charles Gibson,” not ”World News Tonight With Charles Gibson.”

Correction: February 25, 2009 The TV Watch column in some editions on Monday, about the telecast of the Academy Awards ceremony, referred incorrectly to the movie “Mamma Mia!” in naming some of the films whose songs were used in a medley performed by Hugh Jackman and Beyoncé. It was not nominated for an Academy Award.

Correction Monday, Jan. 3, 2005 A television review on Oct. 25 about “The Brooke Ellison Story,” a movie about a quadriplegic college student, misidentified the actress who played Brooke Ellison as a child, when she was injured and sent to a rehabilitation center. She was Vanessa Marano. (Lacey Chabert played the older Brooke Ellison.) An e-mail message from a reader about the error was misdirected at The Times

Correction Monday, July 12, 2003 An article in Weekend on July 2 about the Museum of Television and Radio in Manhattan misstated the year it opened. It began as the Museum of Broadcasting in 1976; 1991 was the year it moved to its present location under the new name. The article also misstated the title of the series in which the Stephen Sondheim musical `Evening Primrose` was broadcast in 1966. It was “ABC Stage 67,” not “Studio 67.”

Correction: Oct. 2, 2006 A television review on Tuesday of the ABC series “Help Me Help You” included an outdated quotation of dialogue from the show. A joke referring to the CNN correspondent Anderson Cooper that appeared in preview DVD’s sent to critics was removed before the first episode was broadcast.

Correction: January 14, 2008 A television review on Thursday about “Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew,” on VH1, misidentified the channel that carried “Hey Paula,” another celebrity-oriented show. It was Bravo, not VH1.

Correction: August 6, 2005, Saturday: A television review on July 27 about “Over There,” a show on the FX cable channel portraying the fighting in Iraq, referred incorrectly to the gold star flags that were displayed by the families of Americans killed in past wars. Some are indeed flown by survivors in the current war.

Editors’ NoteTuesday, Sept. 27, 2005 The TV Watch column on Sept. 5 discussed broadcast journalists’ undisguised outrage at the failings of Hurricane Katrina rescue efforts. It said reporters had helped stranded victims because no police officers or rescue workers were around, and added, “Fox’s Geraldo Rivera did his rivals one better: yesterday, he nudged an Air Force rescue worker out of the way so his camera crew could tape him as he helped lift an older woman in a wheelchair to safety.” The editors understood the “nudge” comment as the television critic’s figurative reference to Mr. Rivera’s flamboyant intervention. Mr. Rivera complained, but after reviewing a tape of his broadcast, The Times declined to publish a correction. Numerous readers, however – now including the newspaper’s public editor, who also scrutinized the tape – read the comment as a factual assertion. The Times acknowledges that no nudge was visible on the broadcast.

Correction: April 15, 2007 An article last Sunday about the final season of “The Sopranos” rendered incorrectly the title of a novel A. J. Soprano was assigned to read. It is “Billy Budd.”

Correction: February 18, 2008, Monday The TV Watch column on Wednesday, about coverage of the presidential primaries on Tuesday night, misidentified the channel that calls its stars ”the best political team on television.” It is CNN, not MSNBC.

Correction: May 22, 2005, Sunday An article on May 1 about Mustique, in the Caribbean, referred incorrectly to a meal included in the room rate of the Cotton House, the island’s one hotel. It is afternoon tea. (High tea, served chiefly in Britain, is a more substantial early-evening meal.)

Correction: October 2, 2004, Saturday The TV Watch column in some copies yesterday, about the presidential candidates’ body language in their first debate, misidentified a political commentator who said on Fox News that the polls would tighten a bit after the event. It was Ceci Connolly of The Washington Post, not Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard.

Correction: March 6, 2008 The TV Watch column, in some editions on Wednesday, about coverage of the presidential primaries on Tuesday night, misstated the year the war in Iraq started, a night on which MSNBC drew its highest rating until its broadcast of the Democratic debate last week. It was March 19, 2003 — not 2002.

Correction Sept. 27, 2004, Monday A credit listing with a TV Watch article in Weekend on Aug. 27 about biographies of President Bush shown on CNN and MSNBC on the eve of the Republican National Convention omitted the executive producer of the MSNBC program, “Brian Williams Reports – “George Bush: The Father’s Footsteps.” He was Andrew K. Franklin. (As the listing noted, Tammy Haddad was executive producer for MSNBC convention coverage.)

The TV Watch column yesterday, about two new shows that mix reality television with movies, misidentified the contestant on one program, “Ultimate Film Fanatic,” who showed off a tinsel snowflake taken from the set of the movie “The Wiz.” He was Jordan (Steve was another contestant).

Correction: March 5, 2005, Saturday: The TV Weekend column yesterday, about “The Starlet,” referred to the WB network incorrectly. It is a broadcast network, not cable.

Correction: Wednesday, July 6: A highlight entry on the Television page for the FX series “30 Days” misstated the episode number for “Straight/Gay.” It was the fourth part of the series, not the second.

Correction: June 6, 2005, Monday A television review last Monday about ”Faith of My Fathers,” a movie on A&E based on Senator John McCain’s memoir about his experience as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, misstated the rarity of fathers and sons who have held four-star ranks in the United States military. Senator McCain’s grandfather and father are not the only ones; at least three other sets of fathers and sons have held that distinction.

CorrectionFriday, Sept. 23, 2005 The TV Watch column yesterday, about Martha Stewart and her new television shows, misstated the given name of her daughter. It is Alexis, not Alexa.

Correction: September 16, 2004, Thursday A television review on Tuesday about ”R-Rated: Republicans in Hollywood,” an AMC documentary about politics and the movie industry, referred incorrectly to the box office performance of ”The Day After Tomorrow,” a feature film with a global warming theme. Its domestic receipts totaled $186.4 million, and its worldwide sales $540.4 million, according to Variety.com; it was not a flop.

For the Record – Oct. 12, 2004: A TV Watch column in some late editions on Saturday about the televised debate between President Bush and Senator John Kerry misstated a comparison of the number of times the two candidates addressed questioners in the audience by name. While Mr. Kerry responded to 10 out of 18 by name, Mr. Bush addressed two questioners – not none – that way.

Correction: June 10, 2005, Friday: The TV Weekend column last Friday, about mock reality shows including the new HBO series “The Comeback,” referred imprecisely to Michael Patrick King, an executive producer of that series, and his involvement in “Sex and the City.” HBO says he was an executive producer of “Sex and the City” and “a leading creative contributor”; Darren Star was credited as the creator.

Correction: Sept. 25, 2005, Sunday: A brief article in the New Season issue on Sept. 11 about the ABC series “Commander in Chief” starring Geena Davis misstated the surname of her character at one point. She is Mackenzie Allen, not Adams.

Correction: January 19, 2007, Friday A television review in Weekend last Friday about ”24” misstated the method the president’s sister uses to destroy personnel files sought by the F.B.I. She deletes them from a computer; she doesn’t shred them.

Correction: Jan. 28, 2006, Saturday: A television review on Jan. 11 about “South Beach,” on UPN, misidentified the character who appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated. It was Noel, not Arielle.

Correction: September 11, 2004, Saturday The TV Watch column on Sept. 3, about coverage of the Republican National Convention by Fox News, misspelled the name of the playwright and diplomat whose bristly manner was likened to that of some Fox anchors. She was Clare Boothe Luce, not Claire Booth Luce.

The review referred incorrectly to an earlier series, “Wings,” that featured Tim Daly, the star of “Eyes.” It was his last hit series; “The Fugitive” was his last series over all.

Correction: September 15, 2008, Monday A television column on Friday discussed a Web site, created by a museum in Astoria, Queens, that shows televised presidential campaign advertisements from 1952 to the present. While the column and an accompanying capsule summary about coverage at nytimes.com/tv correctly cited the name of the museum at the time it created the site in 2000 — the American Museum of the Moving Image — it has since changed its name to the Museum of the Moving Image.

Correction: January 28, 2008 A television review in Weekend on Friday about the Fox game show “The Moment of Truth” misstated the amount of money a contestant won on the show “Deal or No Deal” on Wednesday night in comparing “The Moment of Truth” with other game shows. The contestant, Britney Lewzader, won $471,000, not $1 million.

Correction: Dec. 9, 2005, Friday: A television review on Wednesday about “Epitafios,” a detective series from Argentina on HBO Signature, referred incorrectly to Jorge Luis Borges in citing Argentina’s long tradition of detective fiction. While he wrote detective stories, his writings did not include any novels.

Correction: March 13, 2008, Thursday The TV Watch column on Wednesday, about coverage of the Eliot Spitzer scandal, referred incompletely to the departure of Mike Barnicle from The Boston Globe in 1998. In addition to having been accused of plagiarism, he was also suspected of having fabricated material in a column for The Globe. (Mr. Barnicle was cited in the column with other cable television commentators who have weathered their own scandals.)

Correction: January 28, 2006, Saturday A television review on Jan. 17 about ”Love Monkey,” a new CBS series, misstated the title of a collection of Bob Dylan recordings that a woman gives to the hero. It is ”The Essential Bob Dylan,” not ”The Ultimate Bob Dylan.”

Correction: January 8, 2008 The TV Watch column in Weekend on Friday, about the return of some late-night talk shows that had been in reruns because of the writers’ strike, misstated part of the title of a segment on David Letterman’s show. It was “Hal Gurnee’s Network Time Killers,” not “Time Wasters.”

Correction: June 13, 1999, Sunday The What’s Doing column on May 23, about Venice, misstated the relationship between Coosje van Bruggen and Claes Oldenburg, whose work will be shown at the Biennale. The exhibition is a collaboration between Ms. van Bruggen and Mr. Oldenburg; she is not his assistant. The column also misstated the exhibition’s title. It is ”Claes Oldenburg Coosje van Bruggen,” not ”Large Scale Projects.”

Correction: October 7, 2004, Thursday A television review on Tuesday about ”Tanner on Tanner,” a mock documentary on the Sundance channel, misstated the number of episodes. There are four, not three. A listing with the review included an erroneous credit. Jacob Craycroft edited the shows alone, not with Peter Sassi. (A short excerpt from a film edited by Mr. Sassi is shown in the series.)

Correction: March 17, 2005, Thursday A television review in Weekend on March 4 about ”Deadwood,” an HBO series created by David Milch, omitted the co-creator of ”NYPD Blue,” another series Mr. Milch developed. He is Steven Bochco.

Correction: October 30, 2004, Saturday Because of an editing error, the TV Watch article yesterday, about television on the eve of the election in Florida, a swing state, translated the name of a Spanish-language program incorrectly. The program, ”El Gordo y la Flaca,” is known as ”The Scoop and the Skinny” (not ”The Fat Man and the Skinny Man”).

Correction: October 20, 2007, Saturday The TV Watch column in Weekend yesterday, about the season finales of ”Mad Men” and ”Damages,” misstated the day that the FX network will show past episodes of ”Damages.” It is today, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; the past episodes were not shown on Friday. (”Mad Men” ended its season on Thursday; ”Damages” will have its finale on Tuesday.)

Correction: May 1, 2005, Sunday An article last Sunday about Pope Benedict XVI’s record of disciplinary actions against theologians while he was prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith misstated the timing of the Protestant Reformation, set off by Martin Luther. It began in 1517; it was not ”more than 500” years ago. A chart listing the disciplinary actions included one case — that of Professor Hans Küng, a Swiss theologian at the University of Tübingen, Germany — incorrectly. When that disciplinary action took place, the future pope was Archbishop of Munich, not prefect of the congregation.

Correction: October 22, 2004, Friday The TV Watch column on Wednesday, about a televised dispute between broadcast personalities — Jon Stewart of ”The Daily Show” versus Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson of ”Crossfire” — referred erroneously to a past example from an era when famous people clashed bitterly and at length on the air. Mary McCarthy indeed criticized Lillian Hellman on ”The Dick Cavett Show” in 1980, but Hellman was not present.

Correction: May 8, 2005, Sunday The television report on the Week Ahead page last Sunday, about the return of ”Family Guy” to the Fox network, misspelled the surname of its creator and misidentified a cable channel that carried reruns after Fox canceled the show in 2002. He is Seth MacFarlane, not McFarlane; the channel was the Cartoon Network, not Comedy Central.

Correction: April 14, 2005, Thursday The TV Watch column on Sunday, about American television coverage of the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, misidentified the cable network that carries the talk show of one commentator, Tina Brown. It is CNBC, not MSNBC.

Correction: December 23, 2005, Friday The TV Watch column yesterday, about coverage of the transit strike, misspelled the surname of an ”Eyewitness News” anchor on WABC. He is Steve Bartelstein, not Bertelstein.

Correction: October 14, 2004, Thursday A television review on Monday about ”The Choice 2004” on PBS and ”Diary of a Political Tourist” on HBO, written, directed and produced by Alexandra Pelosi, misstated the title of a documentary Ms. Pelosi made about the 2000 Bush campaign. It was ”Journeys With George,” not ”Travels With George.”

Correction: February 8, 2007, Thursday The TV Watch column yesterday, about the shows ”Lost” and ”Heroes,” referred imprecisely to the character Walt on ”Lost.” While he is missing from the story, having left the island with his father at the end of last season, he is not still missing because of his kidnapping.

Correction: March 9, 2007, Friday The TV Watch column yesterday, about reports from Iraq by the NBC anchor Brian Williams, and the competition among NBC, ABC and CBS to draw viewers to their evening news programs, referred incorrectly to coverage of President Bush’s State of the Union address in January by Charles Gibson, the ABC anchor. He covered it from Washington, not ”from his desk in New York.”

Correction: January 13, 2007, Saturday A television review on Jan. 2 about ”Dirt,” on FX, referred incorrectly to the channel. It is a basic cable channel, not a premium one.

Correction: June 6, 2007 The TV Watch column on Friday, about Fred D. Thompson, the former senator and actor on “Law & Order,” who has taken steps to run for president, misstated the year of the Senate Watergate hearings, when he was named minority counsel for the committee investigating the scandal. It was 1973, not 1974.

Correction: August 10, 2005, Wednesday The TV Watch column in The Arts yesterday, about the legacy of Peter Jennings, misstated the name of the network where he started his career. It is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, not Company.

Correction: October 6, 1998, Tuesday An article on Sept. 24 about followers of the late Italian priest Padre Pio referred incorrectly to his order, the Capuchins. They are friars, not monks. The article also referred incorrectly to St. Francis of Assisi. He was not a priest.

Correction: September 26, 2003, Friday A television review on May 19 about the NBC movie ”Martha Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart” misstated the native country of Ms. Stewart’s father, Eddie Kostyra. While he was of Polish descent, he was born in New York.

Correction: October 1, 1991, Tuesday An obituary on Saturday about Oona O’Neill Chaplin misstated her age in some copies. Mrs. Chaplin was 66 years old, not 70.

Correction: June 4, 2004, Friday A TV Watch article on May 18 about ”Tell Me a Story: The Man Who Made ‘60 Minutes,’ ” a look at the career of the producer Don Hewitt, referred incorrectly to the film of the Andrea Doria’s sinking made by his CBS News crew in 1956. It did not show the only news images of the sinking. Harry Trask of The Boston Traveler also photographed it. Correction: August 21, 2004, Saturday A TV Watch column on May 18 about a CBS program on Don Hewitt, creator and executive producer of ”60 Minutes,” misstated the amount of money that CBS paid H.R. Haldeman, former chief of staff to President Richard M. Nixon, for an interview in 1975. It was $100,000, not $1,000. The article also referred incorrectly to the interview, which was shown in two parts. While it was seen in the ”60 Minutes” time slot, it was a CBS News special, not a ”60 Minutes” program.

Correction: April 20, 2006 A review of the ABC television series “What About Brian” on Saturday misstated the surname of a character played by Sandra Oh in the series “Grey’s Anatomy.” She is Dr. Cristina Yang, not Lang.

Correction: May 9, 2001, Wednesday An article on Monday about the visit of Pope John Paul II to Syria referred imprecisely to the destruction in the Golan Heights city of Quneitra, where he has since delivered a prayer for peace. The city was captured by Israel during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. It is the Syrians who contend that the Israelis used dynamite and bulldozers to level the town before they left in 1974. Israel says the damage was a byproduct of fighting in the wars of 1967 and 1973.

Correction: January 31, 2004, Saturday The TV Weekend column yesterday about the political comedian Dennis Miller and his new talk show referred incorrectly in some copies to the background of Adm. James Stockdale, whose performance as a vice-presidential candidate was a discussion topic. The admiral ran as an independent in 1992 with Ross Perot, not as a Republican in 1996 with John McCain, who was not a nominee.

Correction: September 30, 2003, Tuesday A TV Weekend review on Friday about three new CBS series misspelled the surname of the actor playing the heroine’s father in ”Joan of Arcadia.” He is Joe Mantegna, not Montegna.

Correction: July 6, 1997, Sunday An article last Sunday about the revamping of Aeroflot Russian International Airlines misstated the year of publication of ”Flying Blind, Flying Safe,” a book by Mary Schiavo that describes the perils of airline passengers. It was 1997, not 1996. A chart with the article referred incorrectly to the start of civilian jet airline service. The first company to offer it was the British Overseas Air Corporation, not Aeroflot. The British service began in 1952; Aeroflot’s started in 1956.

Correction: July 17, 1999, Saturday A front-page article on June 26 about the religious connections of Martin Frankel, the fugitive money manager from Greenwich, Conn., referred incorrectly to restrictions imposed by the Archdiocese of Washington on the Rev. Peter Jacobs, a Roman Catholic priest involved in Mr. Frankel’s dealings. In 1983 the archdiocese suspended Father Jacobs’s authorization to function as a priest, an action that invalidates marriages he may have performed since then. The action did not invalidate other sacraments possibly performed by Father Jacobs, like baptisms or the celebrations of Mass. The article also misstated the clerical title of William E. Lori, an official of the archdiocese who described the restrictions. He is a bishop, not a monsignor.

Correction: February 7, 2003, Friday A television review yesterday about a ”20/20” program on Michael Jackson misstated the time and date of the broadcast on ABC. It was 8 p.m. last night; the ”20/20” program at 10 tonight is about women who batter men, and other topics.

Correction: April 17, 2004, Saturday The TV Watch column in The Arts on Thursday, about two reality shows — ”The Apprentice,” created by Mark Burnett, and ”The Swan,” created by Mike Darnell — misidentified Mr. Darnell’s partner in creating ”Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire.” He was Mike Fleiss, not Mr. Burnett.

Correction: November 22, 2002, Friday An article on Nov. 7 about the background of Ted Savaglio, executive director of the Voter News Service, misstated the affiliations of two news executives who testified before Congress with Mr. Savaglio about the Florida presidential vote. The executives, Roger Ailes of Fox News and Andrew Heyward of CBS News, testified on behalf of their networks, not as members of the news service board.

Correction: November 3, 1998, Tuesday An article on Oct. 13 about American Catholic seminarians misstated the given name and the order of a priest who teaches at the Pontifical North American College of Rome. He is the Rev. Peter Cameron, not John, and he is a Dominican, not a Franciscan. Father Cameron said the article also referred incompletely to his opinion of the topic of a homily by a seminarian who began it with a reference to Pope John Paul II’s election 20 years ago. Father Cameron says that the election may be too remote a reference for some Catholics, not that the Pope himself may be too remote.

Correction: May 23, 1990, Wednesday, Late Edition – Final An article yesterday about French Canadian business leaders in Montreal misstated the year that the separatist government of Rene Levesque took power in Quebec. It was 1976.

Correction: November 9, 1990, Thursday, Late Edition – Final An anecdote yesterday in a roundup of vignettes about memorable moments in the 1990 political campaign misstated the outcome of the Michigan race for governor in some copies. John Engler, whose former wife, Colleen, wrote an autobiography but delayed publication, defeated James J. Blanchard and was elected governor, not re-elected.

Correction: September 23, 2000, Saturday An article on Wednesday about reassignments at the Vatican misspelled the given name of one co-author of an article in the Jesuit magazine America that suggested that the Vatican was growing more tolerant about the use of condoms to combat the spread of AIDS, and misspelled the surname of the other. The authors are the Rev. Jon D. Fuller (not John) and the Rev. James F. Keenan (not Keegan).

Correction: August 9, 1994, Tuesday An article last Wednesday about the refusal of the Lutheran Archbishop of Latvia to ordain women misstated the name of the church’s world body. It is the Lutheran World Federation. A picture caption with the article misstated the Archbishop’s name. It is Janis Vanags, not Vargas.

Correction: Jan. 11, 2006 A television review on Monday about the new ABC sitcom “Emily’s Reasons Why Not” misspelled the surname of the heroine of the novel “Vanity Fair,” a role cited as the type of role in which Heather Graham, the star of the sitcom, might be funny. She is Becky Sharp, not Sharpe.

Correction: Feb. 3, 2006 A television review on Jan. 2 about “Rollergirls,” a documentary-style reality series on A&E, misidentified the player who explained another player’s absence by saying, “She had some family issues to deal with, and she also messed up her foot at the Jell-O wrestling.” It was Cha Cha, not Lux.

Correction: June 15, 2002, Saturday A front-page article on Wednesday about memoirs written by servants and office assistants about their former employers misspelled the given name of a Hollywood producer who is working on a romantic comedy involving a haughty boss. The producer is Lynda Obst, not Linda. Editors’ Note: June 20, 2002, Thursday A front-page article last Wednesday reported a surge in the publishing of books written by subordinates about their bosses and cited the example of Richard Blow, who worked for John F. Kennedy Jr. at George magazine. The article said that immediately after Mr. Kennedy’s death, Mr. Blow barred the magazine’s staff members from talking to the media or writing about him. The article should have described a disagreement over Mr. Blow’s version of the events. He says that when he instructed employees not to discuss Mr. Kennedy, he told them that he was doing so at the request of the family. But four staff members dispute Mr. Blow’s account. Stephanie Cutter, a spokeswoman for Senator Edward Kennedy, said it was ”highly unlikely” that such a request had been made.

Correction: April 6, 2004, Tuesday A Critic’s Notebook article on Thursday about the premiere of the liberal radio network Air America misstated the title given to Al Franken’s program, as a parody of Bill O’Reilly’s television program on Fox. It is ”The O’Franken Factor,” not ”The O’Franken Report.”

Correction: March 4, 2004, Thursday A television review yesterday about ”Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital” on ABC misidentified the country that originated the 1994 mini-series from which it was adapted. It was Denmark, not the Netherlands.

Correction: August 14, 2000, Monday An article on Tuesday about Prince Emanuele Filiberto di Sa voia, the exiled heir to the Italian throne, who is campaigning for the right to visit his homeland, misstated the relationship of two members of the Savoy dynasty. Mafalda was the daughter, not the sister, of King Vittorio Emanuele III.

Correction: March 23, 2004, Tuesday The TV Weekend review in Weekend on Friday, about the HBO series ”Deadwood,” misstated the given name of the actor who plays Seth Bullock, a former Montana marshal. He is Timothy Olyphant, not Thomas.

Correction: July 20, 1991, Saturday An article on Monday about a biography of the poet Anne Sexton misidentified the author of a biography of John Cheever. He is Scott Donaldson.

Correction: November 4, 1991, Monday An article in some editions on Saturday about Anita Hill’s appearance in New York City misidentified the award she received from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women. It is the Ida B. Wells award.

Correction: January 7, 1995, Saturday An article on Thursday about the security chief for President Boris N. Yeltsin of Russia referred incorrectly to the aide’s military status, and because of an editing error the reference was repeated in some editions yesterday in an article about the Russian Government’s lifting of price controls on oil. The official, Aleksandr V. Korzhakov, has the rank of major general and is not a retired major.

Correction: October 27, 1996, Sunday An article on Friday about a meeting between Presidents Boris N. Yeltsin of Russia and Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine referred incorrectly to the resort town of Sochi, the site of an earlier meeting between them. It is in Russia — not in Crimea, which is a part of Ukraine.

Correction: June 21, 1998, Sunday An article yesterday about Pope John Paul II’s trip to Austria misspelled the name of the Archbishop of Vienna. He is Christoph Cardinal Schonborn, not Cristoph Cardinal Shonborn.

Correction: June 18, 1999, Friday An article yesterday about Pope John Paul II’s recollections of Jewish friends in his hometown, Wadowice, Poland, and their suffering in World War II misstated the name of a boyhood friend in some copies. He was Jerzy Kluger, not Jurek Kruger.

Correction: June 20, 2003, Friday The TV Watch column on Wednesday, about shows in which people change their appearance, identity or home, misstated a word in the title of a recent movie about a character who slips the bonds of class and profession. It is ”Catch Me if You Can,” not ”as You Can.” The column also misidentified the teenager on the show ”Switched” who asked ”Tepees and stuff?” when told she was to switch places with a girl on an Indian reservation. She was Ally; Ida was the girl who lived on the reservation.

Correction: January 16, 2002, Wednesday An article in Business Day yesterday about efforts by television networks to tailor news programs to young people misspelled the surname of the president of ABC News, who said he had learned from experience about overcatering to them. He is David Westin, not Weston. The article also misidentified the CBS News program on which Rebecca Rankin, a reporter for the music network VH1, has appeared. It is ”48 Hours,” not ”60 Minutes.”

Correction: September 6, 2002, Friday An article in The Arts on Monday about ”Martin and Lewis,” a movie about the comedy team to be shown on CBS in November, misstated the title of a Lewis film. It is ”The Bellboy,” not ”The Bellhop.”

Correction: October 19, 1996, Saturday A front-page article yesterday about the dismissal of a top Russian official by President Boris N. Yeltsin referred incorrectly in some copies to the year Mr. Yeltsin was similarly ousted from a high-level Soviet post. It was 1987, not 1988.

Correction: September 14, 2003, Sunday A byline was omitted yesterday from the television review of ”Wuthering Heights,” on MTV. It was by Alessandra Stanley.

Correction: May 22, 1998, Friday An article yesterday about the theft of three works of art, including ”L’Arlesienne” by van Gogh, from the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, referred incorrectly to a New York museum that has another van Gogh painting by that name. It is the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Correction: January 30, 1995, Monday An article yesterday about anxieties over the war in Chechnya misspelled the Russian translation of Time of Troubles. It is Smutnoye Vremya, not Smutnaya Vremya.

Correction: June 11, 2004, Friday A TV Watch article on Monday about the season finale of ”The Sopranos” on HBO misstated the outcome of an attack by the character Tony B. on his Korean boss in an earlier episode. The boss was injured, not killed. It also referred incorrectly to a member of Johnny Sack’s mob killed by Tony B. He was not a captain. The article also misstated a concern of Uncle Junior during a conversation with Tony Soprano, when Junior was fixated on a gift he had ordered for a sick friend. The issue was whether he had given the right address for the friend, not the right phone number.

Correction: July 24, 2004, Saturday The TV Watch column in Weekend yesterday gave an incorrect cable channel in some copies for ”John Kerry: Bringing the War Home,” on Sunday night. It will be on MSNBC, as shown in the program listing, not on ESPN.

Correction: March 24, 2004, Wednesday A television review on March 16 about the CBS series ”Century City” misattributed its creation. The creator is Ed Zuckerman. (Paul Attanasio and Katie Jacobs are executive producers, along with Mr. Zuckerman.)

Correction: June 14, 2004, Monday The TV Watch column on June 4, about the 60th anniversary of D-Day, misstated the whereabouts of the German commander, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, when the Allies landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944. He was in Ulm, not in Berlin. It also misstated the date of an interview in Normandy given to Walter Cronkite by the American commander, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, for ”D-Day Plus 20 Years” on the ”CBS Reports” series. (That error also occurred in an article last Monday about the commemoration of D-Day by various presidents.) The interview was in 1963; its first broadcast was in 1964.

Correction: October 29, 1995, Sunday An article on Oct. 21 about a threat by Boris N. Yeltsin to dismiss his Foreign Minister, and another article on Oct. 24 about the Russian President’s summit meeting with President Clinton, characterized Mr. Yeltsin’s Cabinet incorrectly. The embattled Foreign Minister, Andrei V. Kozyrev, is not the only liberal democrat; other members, notably the First Deputy Prime Minister, Anatoly B. Chubais, are considered more liberal than Mr. Kozyrev.

Correction: July 22, 1995, Saturday An article on Wednesday about the health of President Boris N. Yeltsin of Russia referred incorrectly to the writer of a work used as the basis for a television skit about Mr. Yeltsin, the type of work and the accepted translation of its title. The writer was Gorky, not Gogol. It is a play, not a story. And while it has been known as “At the Bottom,” it is commonly translated as “The Lower Depths.”

Correction: March 6, 1995, Monday An article on Friday about public reaction to the killing of Vladislav Listyev, a popular Russian television personality, referred incorrectly in some copies to Sergei M. Kirov, a Stalin aide whose assassination some compared to Mr. Listyev’s. Kirov was killed in 1934, not 1937.

Correction: June 2, 1997, Monday An article on Saturday about two consultants to the Russian Government from the Harvard Institute for International Development, who were dismissed by Harvard, misstated the surname of one of the consultants. He is Jonathan Hay, not Hays.

Correction: July 15, 1998, Wednesday An article on Thursday about a proposed international tribunal for war crimes cases misstated the number of cases in which rape has been charged at another tribunal, the one in The Hague dealing with war crimes in the Balkans. It is four, not one.

Correction: October 13, 2001, Saturday An article yesterday about President Bush’s manner during his news conference on Thursday night misstated the surname of the CNN commentator who drew a Shakespearean analogy to the president’s growth. The speaker was Jeff Greenfield, not Greenberg.

Correction: January 19, 2003, Sunday An article last Sunday about reality television shows misstated the given name of the author of ”Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” who confided his reluctance to publicly embarrass the impoverished farmers he was assigned to study. He was James Agee, not William.

Correction: March 28, 1998, Saturday An article yesterday about the first woman to attend the Frunze Naval Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia, referred incorrectly in some editions to the American military college that Shannon Faulkner attended briefly. It is The Citadel, not the Virginia Military Institute. The article also referred incorrectly in some editions to Demi Moore’s character in the movie ”G.I. Jane.” She played a Navy Seal, but not the first one. The article misstated the percentage of women in the American military. It is 14 percent, not 20.

Correction: January 13, 1996, Saturday An article on Wednesday about the naming of a Russian Foreign Minister referred incorrectly to his status. The appointee, Yevgeny M. Primakov, serves at the pleasure of President Boris N. Yeltsin and is not subject to confirmation by Parliament.

Correction: December 19, 1996, Thursday A front-page article yesterday about the killing of six Red Cross workers in Chechnya misspelled the surname of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in some editions. She is Sadako Ogata, not Otagi.

Correction: December 14, 1999, Tuesday An article on Friday about the number of religion-related programs on Italian television misspelled the surname of an actress who plays Mary Magadelen in a series called ”Friends of Jesus.” She is Maria Grazia Cucinotta, not Cuchinotta.

Correction: April 26, 2000, Wednesday An article on Sunday about pilgrims in Rome for the Catholic Church’s Holy Year celebrations misstated the destination of the pilgrims in Chaucer’s ”Canterbury Tales.” It was Canterbury, England, not Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Correction: June 16, 2000, Friday An article on May 18 and a picture caption on May 19 about celebrations of Pope John Paul II’s 80th birthday misidentified two London musical groups that performed for him. They were the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Philharmonia Chorus, not the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus.

Correction: July 6, 1990, Friday, Late Edition – Final An article on Wednesday about a New Jersey Supreme Court order for two eating clubs at Princeton University to admit women misidentified Sally Frank, the alumna who sued the clubs 11 years ago. She is a professor at New York Law School, not at New York University Law School.

Correction: August 11, 1990, Saturday, Late Edition – Final An article on Aug. 2 about the social season in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., incorrectly described the criminal conviction of Peter M. Brant, a Greenwich, Conn., polo player and racehorse owner. He was convicted of willful failure to maintain tax records, a misdemeanor, not tax evasion, a felony. Two corporations of which he was president, the BATO Company and Riviere du Loup Newsprint Ltd., pleaded guilty to willfully filing false tax returns, a felony.

Correction: October 22, 1998, Thursday An article on Friday about an encyclical issued by Pope John Paul II incorrectly described papal encyclicals. An encyclical is not the most authoritative form of papal statement. The most authoritative statements are those made when the Pope indicates he is speaking ex cathedra, formally declaring a doctrine to be infallibly or irreversibly part of the Catholic faith. Such ex cathedra statements can appear in encyclicals and in other papal documents as well.

Correction: January 30, 2001, Tuesday An article yesterday about Pope John Paul II’s appointment of seven more cardinals after the 37 he chose a week earlier misspelled the surname of an American Jesuit who expressed surprise that the College of Cardinals had grown to 135. He is the Rev. Thomas J. Reese, not Reeve.

Correction: March 20, 2003, Thursday The TV Watch article in some copies on Tuesday, about the tone of President Bush’s address to the nation on war with Iraq, paraphrased his warning about war criminals incorrectly. He said: ”War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished.” He did not say the United States would prosecute them.

Correction: July 31, 2002, Wednesday An article on Thursday about NBC’s fall schedule referred incorrectly to the phrase ”gay mafia,” which arose in a discussion of the absence of new gay characters in the networks’ lineup. The term came to prominence recently when the Hollywood agent Michael S. Ovitz, in an interview in Vanity Fair, blamed a ”gay mafia” for his own professional downfall; he did not say such a group ran the entertainment industry.

Correction: Sept. 4, 2004, Saturday A television review on Wednesday about “Hawaii,” a new police drama on NBC, misstated the subject of another show that is set in Hawaii, “North Shore” on Fox. It is about a hotel that offers guests sexual favors, not about the sex industry.

Correction Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004 An article in The Arts on Thursday about the making of the HBO series “Rome” misstated the origin of another major HBO project, “Sex and the City.” It was based on a collection of newspaper columns by Candace Bushnell, not on a popular novel.

Correction: Oct. 7, 2005, Friday: A television review on Tuesday about “Close to Home” on CBS, a new drama that centers on a prosecutor who is a working mother, misstated the date of another crime show that added a twist. “Ironside,” about a detective in a wheelchair, was introduced in 1967, not after “Dragnet” went off the air in 1970.

Correction: September 25, 1990, Tuesday, Late Edition – Final An article and a picture caption on Sunday about foster care at Hale House in New York City referred incorrectly in some editions to the views of Barbara Sabol, the city’s Human Resources Administrator. She said city resources should be spent on improving foster homes, not on financing group homes, even good ones.

Correction: March 29, 2001, Thursday An article on March 6 about concerns in Milan about the exploitation and sexual abuse of young fashion models misstated the given name of an Italian designer who commented on the allure of young models. He is Antonio Fusco, not Alberto.

A Media Accomplice?

In the mess of the balloon-boy hoax, it’s being reported that a news outlet may have been in on it.

Larimer, Colo., Sheriff Jim Alderman said he’s examining the “the possibility that . . . some of the media outlets may have had some knowledge about this.”

Documents show that one outlet agreed to pay the Heenes with regard to the balloon incident, Alderden said.

He didn’t name the outlet, but said it was a show that blurs “the line between entertainment and news.”

I wonder which one. Access Hollywood? Entertainment Tonight? TMZ? National Enquirer?

News money eyed in balloon ‘hoax’

Skirting Good Sense

In the rush to court women readers, several newspapers have started a “Moms” section or blog. Others have chosen to run content from Skirt!, which advertises itself as “all about women.” If you’re going to run content for women, why use a pejorative term for them? e.g. “chasing skirts” “look at that skirt” Then again, looking through skirt! the content seems as unenlightened as the title. Jezebel does not approve.

Bobby Hauck Is A Bitch

This is a rarity these days. A newspaper using a little muscle in a dispute with someone they cover. Most of the time, a paper will cave in a situation like this. At the University of Montana, the school newspaper wrote a solid story about an assault involving two football players. The head coach of the Grizz wasn’t happy and acted like petulant little child.

In recent weeks, head coach Bobby Hauck has publicly belittled Kaimin reporters at weekly news conferences, and followed through with an earlier threat of shutting the students out of interviews. Now, the football athletes are no longer speaking to the student reporters either – a silence the Kaimin believes Hauck ordered.

UM officials strongly deny that claim, saying the athletes decided among themselves not to talk.

What brought this spat into public view, however, was last Saturday when fans and alumni crowding into Washington-Grizzly Stadium stopped to grab a GameDay – a free Kaimin-produced publication highlighting a member of the Griz football team – only to find the cover story featuring a coach for Cal Poly, the opposing team.

So, I’ll put up the headline that I’m sure the students wish they could.

It reminds me of another football coach who took issue with the coverage of his team.

Bobby Hauck excludes student journalists from interviews after questions about alleged assault by athletes

A Eulogy For Print

In case you’re a dinosaur who hasn’t come out of the newsroom in the last 15 years, you may want to look at this video. In fact embrace it. It’s a conversation with Jason Calacanis, Jeff Jarvis and Nick Denton. If you don’t know who those guys are, you might as well just prepare to be laid off.

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Everybody Is Dumb

“I’m glad we haven’t got newspapers now,” she said. “It’s been much nicer without them.” – Nevil Shute, On The Beach

Let’s begin, shall we? I’m a former newspaperman who is out of a job. To get it out of the way. I spent nine years in the business and learned more about it in my one year out of it.

Journalism isn’t what it used to be. Neither is the criticism of journalism. Most of it’s pretty awful. The premise I’m working under is that journalism is overrun with extremely dumb people. People who should be cleaning toilets at Denny’s dumb. I shouldn’t say that, because it’s a disservice to the Denny’s employees who scrub out the vomit on the porcelain walls of those toilets.

The people who have anointed themselves critics of these handicapped people are equally dumb. For God’s sake, when did Harry Shearer become a media critic?! When did Huffington Post become a media outlet? Jesus.

Those who are ruining journalism and those who are ruining journalism criticism have one thing in common – they’re fucking boomers, too afraid to acknowledge the digital revolution. The people in charge of newspapers don’t know they’re staring death in the eyes, too blinded by the white light, mistaking death for life. And the critics are content to live in the same world too dumb to offer any idea that wouldn’t have been a retread in 1982.

So that’s my altruistic opening speech. And really? Harry Shearer?!