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mistakes happen
October 15, 2007I was thinking about the world today when I stopped to read a copy of the New York Times. I skimmed straight to the sport's page because that's how my brain operates.
After reading the main story about the New England Patriots' victory over the Dallas Cowboys I noticed a small meaningless mistake. That's right, a mistake in the New York Times. Gasp!
The way I see it, the New York Times is the standard for American newspapers. Everything they do seems to be done well as far a news writing is concerned.
But the main story about the game mentioned that Tom Brady threw five touchdowns, two to Randy Moss and two to Wes Welker.
The first and third part of the sentence is accurate, but the second, with two to Randy Moss, is incorrect.
Moss had two touchdown catches, one of which was called back. The write made a simple mistake, but in the world of newspapers I can imagine how she feels. Or, maybe not.
She works for the New York Times, and I work for the Times Record News. I know I feel horrible when I make a mistake that shows up in print the next morning.
I want to crawl under a rock and do the unthinkable. The TRN goes out to a much smaller scale of people than that of the NY Times.
Reporters hate to get things wrong. But mistakes happen. Now the NY Times handles, at times, way more important, Pulitzer level stories, but everybody knows when something goes wrong in Wichita Falls.
A laugh might even be had at the paper's expense.
Read the NY times every morning and a journalist, mainly this one, is quick to learn and understand in the greater scheme of things that mistakes happen.
I've messed up in all phases of life-on-the-job, but this job's mistakes are more magnified.
I'm just glad I don't work for the NY Times.
Posted by Clayton Hein at 01:27 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
