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Alessandra Stanley Is A Mess
Oliver Willis —
Sure, she’s a media critic and not a news reporter but Alessandra Stanley’s errors are beyond ridiculous.
Fact Checking? At the New York Times? Shirley, You Jest.
AMERICAN DIGEST —
... Craig Silverman @ CJR sums up her recent career score in Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong with ...
Katie Couric Slams NY Times For Error-Filled Walter Cronkite Appraisal
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... when she was still at the "Today" show in 2005, noting: "At the first sound of her peremptory voice and clickety stiletto heels, people dart behind doors and douse the lights."
Stanley herself has a long history of making mistakes in her pieces. Most notoriously, she confused the title of long-running hit TV sitcom, "Everybody Loves Raymond" for "All About Raymond" - a flagrant violation considering that she's a TV critic.
The Columbia Journalism Review's Regret The Error blog noted that she has been responsible for nine corrections so far in ...
A whole lot of wrong in one place
Balloon Juice —
A pretty remarkable Times correction of an Alessandra Stanley piece (from CJR via O-Dub):
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 ...
Great Puzzles of the Universe
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
... and misspelled the name of a satellite. “Wow,” said Arthur Cooper, a reader from Manhattan. “How did this happen?” The short answer is that a television critic with a history of errors wrote hastily and failed to double-check her work, and editors who should have been vigilant were not.And it would be one thing if she was a firts-rate critic or something, but she (unlike most regular Times critics) is a flyweight. Excellent background here. ...
Michael Kinsley mocks fact-checkers
Obsidian Wings —
... to by many,"
the Times defensively put it the other day) and not by its official
name of Mount McKinley, which "has not been officially changed." [emphasis added] I'm speechless. Does Kinsley really think that concern for factual accuracy is a fad? Does he realize that he's handed his critics a stick to beat him, and anyone who cites his work? The Times is scrupulous about these details because it aspires to be the newspaper of record. The paper doesn't always live up to its own high standards, but at least it has a policy of publicly ...
