Best Correction Ever

Friday, April 23rd, 2004

Look in the New York Times tomorrow for this correction:

Yetserday, the Times identified a man on page A21 as a Ku Klux Klan member found guilty of murdering a black sharecropper. Actually, the man was Pete Coors, head of Coors Brewing Company, and a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. Coors is not in the Ku Klux Klan, and did not murder a black sharecropper. The Times regrets the error.

Beer baron, murdering racist. You can see how they might get the two men mixed up.

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22 Responses to “Best Correction Ever”

  1. #1 |  James D | 

    You mean “White republican man” …. obviously he’s a racist!

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  2. #2 |  Rex Banner | 

    You’re out there somewhere, Beer Baron, and I’ll find you …

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  3. #3 |  The Bitch Girls | 

    I’m Not Even THAT Blonde

    I’ve heard of blonde moments, but this one reported by Radley is a stretch. Look in the New York Times tomorrow for this correction: Yetserday, the Times identified a man on page A21 as a Ku Klux Klan member found…

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  4. #4 |  Comic Book Guy | 

    Am I the beer baron?

    Yes, but only by night. By day, I’m a mild-mannered reporter for a major Metropolitan newspaper.

    But seriously, I can see how a sharecropper could be racist. Them damned uppity negras are cutting in on the government funds with their government-backed minority small business initiatives, when it should be going to Dept of Ag to subsidize the farmers to stop growing food.

    Where did America go?

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  5. #5 |  Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal (2004) | 

    High-Quality Corrections

    Julian Sanchez is happy with the high quality of New York Times corrections these days: Julian’s Lounge: Notes from the Lounge: Radley Balko notes this hilarious correction slated for tomorrow’s New York Times:Yesterday, the Times identified a man on p…

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  6. #6 |  Scared Stiff | 

    The best part is that the campaign spokeswoman suggested that it was better her candidate be confused with a homocidal racist than John Kerry. Even as a joke, I think this speaks volumes about the state of our political system.

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  7. #7 |  Joe Sims | 

    Now if they would only print a section dedicated to correcting the egregious errors in all of Paul Krugman’s columns…

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