Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Gawker on Wall St. Journal corrections


From the Gawker:

WSJ Misidentifies Canada. Twice.

corrections
An Aug. 9 essay on Jamaica runners in Weekend Journal that referred to Jamaican immigration to Canada in the 1960s incorrectly identified Canada as New Canada. Separately, an Aug. 16 Olympics article on Canada’s medal count incorrectly referred to the country as the Commonwealth of Canada.
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This is what happens when you let an Australian-born media mogul buy an American newspaper and import his chief editor from Britain: Suddenly no one on staff can correctly identify the country to the north (for the record, it's "Canada" — just "Canada"). And to think we actually believed Robert Thomson would make the Wall Street Journal more globalist!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

MEAL count or METAL count?