Sunday, March 21, 2004

AND YOU LOOK LIKE A BUCKET OF SHIT: A tale of two NYT Styles Sections.

The good Styles section runs a fawning profile of P. Diddy's manservant without mentioning his one-time role as Official Pissboy to the Star.

The bad Styles section, full of great vengeance and furious anger, runs this Editor's Note on the weddings page today:
A report on Feb. 15 about the wedding of Riva Golan Ritvo and Alan Bruce Slifka included an erroneous account of the bride's education, which she supplied.

Ms. Ritvo, a child therapist, did not graduate from the University of Pennsylvania or receive a master's degree in occupational therapy or a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Southern California. Though she attended Penn for a time, her bachelor's degree, in occupational therapy, is from U.S.C.

The Times should have corroborated the credentials before publishing the report.

Say it with me, gang: D'oh!

And you thought the Jayson Blair thing wouldn't change the Times.

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