Journalism 101 Alert: No One Knows How to Spell "Eliot" -- or Is It "Elliot"?
It's OK not knowing it's spelled "Eliot" in the case of Eliot Spitzer, New York's most famous john (as opposed to "jon".)
But shouldn't you at least find out before you publish your story in:
The Nation?
People?
The Washington Post?
Atlanta Journal-Constitution?
FrontPage Magazine?
The Australian?
On Faith?
Morristown Green?
Napa Valley Register?
The Sentinel?
The Gazette?
WFMY?
WKBW?
KOMO?
Or in scores of other outlets, like Newsday, CNN and others, that have gone back and corrected their errors -- online at least?
Are the lax accuracy standards of blogs seeping into mainstream media -- and particularly the blogs of mainstream media? Or is Google just making it a lot easier to catch the media with their knickers down?
That's just a figure of speech, by the way, Elliot. I mean, Eliot.
posted by Scott Baradell at
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