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more about #alessandrastanley more comments → naugahydeinplainsight: So if I wanted to post something here about how that correction queen Alessandra Stanley has nasty things to say about Tina Fey's performance on 30 Ro... more » Monte Wooley: The Times should thank Stanley--at least people are talking about the Arts section now. Bring back the New York Sun, please, so this city can have the... more » OldTowneTavern: I am surprised. All this talk about Stanley's lazy fact checking and not one mention of her lack of insight and bad taste? more » obloquy: While we're all in a tizzy about errors that make it to print, maybe Gawker should decide between figure dashes, en dashes, and em dashes, 'cus this p... more » MBM: Missing from all of the coverage of this happy-go-lucky embarrassment to journalism is a fact known to everyone who's worked in a newsroom for longer ... more » Peter Feld: I wouldn't say "even" Katie Couric; there was a little payback there. more » WretchedGnu: You think the Times's piece on Cronkite was full of fact-free fantasy? Check out their obit of Derrida. Needless to say, it was never corrected. He... more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: and the reasons this person is still employed are what? in ye olde days, reporters got double plus secret probation for a misspelled middle initial more » MisterHippity: Here's my favorite part of the article: "Though the correct date of the moon landing was fresh in his mind, Manly said, he read right over that mista... more » pssshwhatever: It's hilarious/sad that what will get you failed out of Intro to Copy Editing in j-school won't even get you fired from the NYT, when done repeatedly ... more » BookishLookish: I have a confession. Right after that pile of stinking doggy doo-doo she wrote about the death of Farrah F., she of blessed memory, I visited our loca... more » Peter Feld: Now we should have a contest to find yet more mistakes in that article so the Times has to keep appending corrections. Kind of like "Find The Hidden P... more » MrInBetween: Hack trick! more » Swordfish: The correction is now longer than the piece. more » seyswho: Oh, if only there were an edit feature for life. more » -
#corrections
Play-By-Play: The Self-Loathing NYT's Ultimate Alessandra Stanley Flogging
We've made fun of her time and time again for her absurdly error-filled columns, but this takes it to an entirely new level: the New York Times publicly addressed The Alessandra Stanley Problem today in Clark Hoyt's Public Editor column. More » -
#fail
When Alessandra Stanley Falls Off The Corrections Wagon, She Hits The Ground Hard
Wow. Is the New York Times just picking on poor error-ridden Alessandra Stanley, now? Yet another correction was published in today's paper from her Walter Cronkite appraisal, which they've already corrected twice. Epic. [NY Times Corrections] -
#journalismism
Katie Couric Gives Alessandra Stanley Page From Her Notebook, Tongue Lashing
Katie Couric may be a little late to the "Alessandra Stanley screwed up Walter Cronkite's obit" party but she is officially its celebrity guest. Couric used her entire "notebook" column to school Stanley, and, boy, is it a doozy. More » -
#journalismism
Alessandra Stanley Corrected Hard
There are corrections and then there are Corrections, and error-prone New York Times mistaker Alessandra Stanley got corrected today. For the second time. For the same Walter Cronkite story. Cronkite was good, but he didn't "storm the beaches" on D-Day. More » -
#stanleywatch
NYT's Error-Prone Alessandra Stanley's Splashy Return To (Bad) Form With Cronkite Death
Oh, Alessandra Stanley. As far as newspaper idols go, you're my dreamboat. I loved your shoot-first, fact-check-over-the-dead-body-last approach to writing, but then you stopped doing it. But coming back to old-school-you over Walter Cronkite's appraisal? You're the prodigal-daughter of error. More » -
#media
Was the Times' Alessandra Stanley Too Hard on Farrah Fawcett?
We've received many emails tonight from readers taking issue with an Alessandra Stanley piece in the Times on Farrah Fawcett. Maybe it's the lede—"She really tried. And for a sex symbol that alone can be like an accomplishment." More » -
#alessandrastanley
Dick Cheney Killed the TV Sidekick
Did you know that the reason talk show hosts don't have sidekicks anymore is because of blogs and Dick Cheney? Alessandra Stanley cracked the code! More » -
#classwarfare
No One Cares About Sex Scandals Any More
So says Alessandra Stanley in today's Times. Instead we only care about Ponzi schemes, corporate looters, vapid rich wives and bribe-hungry politicians, because of the panic. Hahahahaha. More » -
