Speaking of inaccuracies, the Gawker Media Ethics Hotline in Pseudo-Journalism has received a flood of tips (okay, one) pointing to another Times writer who makes the occasional fuck-up: TV critic and walking Ivy League advertisement Alessandra Stanley. (At least we think we remember that she went to an Ivy League School. Yale or Harvard, maybe UCLA. Couldn't be bothered to Google it.)

Despite forgetting our LexisNexis password, our crack (addled) research team quickly uncovered these startling figures...

Search (previous year): "alessandra stanley"
Results: 156 hits

Search (previous year): "correction appended"
Results: 24

Search (previous week): "gay new thursday style section"
Results: "This search has been interrupted because it will return more than 1,000 documents. Please edit your search and try again."

That's about one correction for every 6.5 articles (that's 15.3%, math nerds). But, really, who cares? TV is all make believe anyway, right? And now we should probably make a Tolstoy or Pynchon reference, but we still think Gravity's Rainbow is just the name of that really good ecstasy we took in '96. Rock.

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