Rockheads
This is a tale of two papers and one enormous boulder.
One, we'll call it the Montrose Daily Press, allowed itself to be utterly hoodwinked by ridiculous figures, namely that the boulder weighed 330,000 TONS, or **6 1/2 TIMES** the weight of the world's largest cruise ship.
http://www.montrosepress.com/articles/2008/04/11/news/doc47fe92d0c52ea543858921.txt
The other, we'll call it The Daily Sentinel, ran the same story, which initially contained the same outlandish claim. That paper, however, employs a copy editor with a marked tendency not to believe outlandish claims and is therefore not running a correction today. At least not of that article.
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/04/10/041108_3a_Boulder_falls.html
One, we'll call it the Montrose Daily Press, allowed itself to be utterly hoodwinked by ridiculous figures, namely that the boulder weighed 330,000 TONS, or **6 1/2 TIMES** the weight of the world's largest cruise ship.
http://www.montrosepress.com/articles/2008/04/11/news/doc47fe92d0c52ea543858921.txt
The other, we'll call it The Daily Sentinel, ran the same story, which initially contained the same outlandish claim. That paper, however, employs a copy editor with a marked tendency not to believe outlandish claims and is therefore not running a correction today. At least not of that article.
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/04/10/041108_3a_Boulder_falls.html