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05/28/2003 Archived Entry: "NYT: Eating their own, one at a time."
NYT: Eating their own, one at a time.
I heard a report on Lou Dobbs' program that the NY Times is investigating columnist Maureen Dowd, for her misuse of an ellipsis in a quote of Preznit Codpiece. There's something about this in my archives, I think - I'm going out to enjoy a yummy dinner, but I'll try to dig it out when I get back.
I'm somewhat amused that they're investigating her for misusing punctuation, while they could be looking at the mountain of smears she wrote against Al Gore.
Replies: somebody speaks up.
Oh dear...another titan of the Fourth Estate shot down by an errant ellipsis...
I recall a story (perhaps apocryphal) of Edward R. Murrow being called before the HUAC in 1953 on charges that his virgules slanted to the left...
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 05/28/2003 11:17 PM NY
