Getting your facts rights
Corrections are pretty much an occupational hazard for journos like me - expected, but best avoided if you want to keep your reputation (and your job) - but occasionally there's a gem that makes the mistake-making almost worthwhile. Have a look at this from the New York Times:
Corrections: December 30 Published: December 29, 2011
An article on Monday about Jack Robison and Kirsten Lindsmith, two college students with Asperger syndrome who are navigating the perils of an intimate relationship, misidentified the character from the animated children’s TV show “My Little Pony” that Ms. Lindsmith said she visualized to cheer herself up. It is Twilight Sparkle, the nerdy intellectual, not Fluttershy, the kind animal lover.
New York Times My Little Pony correction
No fact is too trivial to get right. Plus, it's a really interesting article about how much we rely on physical and instinctive clues when dating that some people on the autism spectrum have no access to.
Corrections: December 30 Published: December 29, 2011
An article on Monday about Jack Robison and Kirsten Lindsmith, two college students with Asperger syndrome who are navigating the perils of an intimate relationship, misidentified the character from the animated children’s TV show “My Little Pony” that Ms. Lindsmith said she visualized to cheer herself up. It is Twilight Sparkle, the nerdy intellectual, not Fluttershy, the kind animal lover.
New York Times My Little Pony correction
No fact is too trivial to get right. Plus, it's a really interesting article about how much we rely on physical and instinctive clues when dating that some people on the autism spectrum have no access to.