RTP-area local music and culture

[John I <not AT hotmail.com>]

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.