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  • From: John I <not AT hotmail.com>
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: Goodbye Clyde Cooper's? (Progress Marches On)
  • Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 20:10:50 GMT

James Hepler wrote:

>
> --- John I <not AT hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> James Hepler wrote:
>>
>> > Speaking of the N&O. Ouch for them, getting it
>> wrong
>> > on the headline.
>> >
>>
>>
>> If you're talking about the miners: yeah.
>>
>> I found out about the mistake this morning reading a
>> few weblogs and went to
>> the N&O site to see what they had said. I could
>> find nothing current about
>> the mine accident so I guessed that they had gotten
>> it wrong in their print
>> edition and had scrubbed the story from their
>> website. It looks like I might
>> be right.
>>
>> A similar thing happened in the past few weeks with
>> a story about Tom Delay's
>> request that Texas Court Criminal Appeals hear
>> DeLay's money laundering case.
>> The court agreed to consider hearing it, but it was
>> widely reported
>> (including in the N&O) that the court had decided to
>> hear it (from a
>> statement made by Delay's lawyer). I tried to
>> confirm what the N&O had
>> printed on the subject by visiting their website,
>> but lo; the story was
>> missing.


> I wonder, did every paper owned by the same company
> get it wrong, or is that a local decision?

I'm guessing that any paper got it wrong that relied on the AP/NYT for the
text and went to bed before the end of that crucial three hour window the
mining ceo sat with his thumb up his ass.




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