10.24.2006

REALESTS TAKE AIM AT THE NEW YORK POST

Don't get me wrong: I love the "New York Post". Like everyone else in New York, I read it almost every day for Page Six and its attitude that says, "Who cares? It's only fashion".

But as responsible journalists ourselves, we feel it's our place to call them out. The Post is most famous for incorrectly announcing that John Kerry picked Dick Gephardt as his running mate in 2004, running it as a "Post exclusive".

I can live with that. But check out today's errors.

Here is the second line from their lead columnist's piece today on Tony La Russa: "Then he can he can bathe himself in sanctimony..."

But there's more...

Here is the final graph to an article about NBC's cost-cutting moves:

Part of the plan involves movng the operations of NBC-wned MSNBC from Secaucus o Rockefeller Center, where ome staff functions will be ombined with those of NBC ews and CNBC.
Who is the copy chief over there - Jayson Blair?

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