Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Spanish daily El Mundo could learn something about accuracy too. Yesterday, on their web site, they ran a story from The Onion about Obama having been caught lip-synching during a speech in Michigan. They dubbed it in Spanish and treated it with utmost seriousness. Whoever decided to put it on the web site obviously was too lazy to even watch the original Onion video to the end (it segways into a story about Wyoming seceding from the Union...). The Onion story is here: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_caught_lip_syncing_speech Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Mar 5, 2010, at 7:24 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > Yes, the NYT does get checked for accuracy. I get it on my Kindle every > morning and there is always a corrections section with some of the most > minor corrections - usually just one letter wrong in spelling a name, for > example, but they also correct dates and figures that might have been > reported wrong. They seem to do a much better job than any of my local > papers which never make corrections for even gross mistakes. > > I really don't think removing the foot from that photo made any difference > in the message of the photo but there is always that slippery slope issue. > Where do you draw the line? Maybe removing a foot crosses that line? I'm > glad that somebody is paying attention. > > Tina > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> > wrote: > >> They seem to take it to the point of being rediculous. I wonder if the >> NYT >> stories get checked as closely for accuracy? I know that the stories >> that I >> see in local publications have all sorts of errors. >> >> Jim Nichols >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >