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DEVILS, DETAILS AND A GUY CALLED RAYMOND
Written Friday, January 20 by J.R.Knight | E-mail this post
So there’s a whole lot of buzz around The Little Dog Laughed, Douglas Carter Beane’s new play starting Julie White. Ms. White is getting much of the credit, duely from what I hear. Yet, today there was some oddness in the Times’ sparkling review; out of ten references to Ms. White by name the Time’s called her Ms. Wilson six. That put the Times’ correct name to incorrect name score at 4 to 6 against the good guys. And one of the correct spellings was in the title! Another in a caption. That makes the score for the body of the piece 2 to 6 against. I mean, I know times writers are paid shit, notoriously so, but come on. Spell checks the fucking think. There’s more journalistic unpleasantness after the jump!
This oddness comes on the heels of a spat of poor fact checking by the old (maybe senile) gray lady. Gawker has spent much of the end of the year beating retard on a desktop Alessandra Stanley over the head for a string of completely inexcusable slip-ups. Here are a few of my favorites:
She once called “Everyone Love Raymond” “It’s All About Raymond”.
She misspells the name of the heroine in Vanity Fair; it’s Becky Sharp not Sharpe, you twit!
She misquoted The Word from The Colbert Report; it’s Truthiness, not trustiness
She both misspells the name of “The Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane as McFarlane and got the network that picked up the show after Fox first cancelled it wrong. It was the Cartoon Network, not Comedy Central.”
You might find it charming if it were coming from your elderly aunt Bea (“What’s that Raymond show I like so much? He’s a fine young man.”) But this is the television writer for one of the World’s most respected newspapers. For fuck’s sake! She has a whapping 15% correction rate. The most at the Times, and twice the Times’ average. So why is she working there? Should they get someone who, I don’t know, OWNS a television?
I almost read her article today on Bleak House, which will be on PBS this weekend and is mostly likely going to be worth checking out. It’s a great book. But I couldn’t stop laughing at Ms. Stanley insinuation that she had read the book. Something I highly doubt.
This oddness comes on the heels of a spat of poor fact checking by the old (maybe senile) gray lady. Gawker has spent much of the end of the year beating retard on a desktop Alessandra Stanley over the head for a string of completely inexcusable slip-ups. Here are a few of my favorites:
She once called “Everyone Love Raymond” “It’s All About Raymond”.
She misspells the name of the heroine in Vanity Fair; it’s Becky Sharp not Sharpe, you twit!
She misquoted The Word from The Colbert Report; it’s Truthiness, not trustiness
She both misspells the name of “The Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane as McFarlane and got the network that picked up the show after Fox first cancelled it wrong. It was the Cartoon Network, not Comedy Central.”
You might find it charming if it were coming from your elderly aunt Bea (“What’s that Raymond show I like so much? He’s a fine young man.”) But this is the television writer for one of the World’s most respected newspapers. For fuck’s sake! She has a whapping 15% correction rate. The most at the Times, and twice the Times’ average. So why is she working there? Should they get someone who, I don’t know, OWNS a television?
I almost read her article today on Bleak House, which will be on PBS this weekend and is mostly likely going to be worth checking out. It’s a great book. But I couldn’t stop laughing at Ms. Stanley insinuation that she had read the book. Something I highly doubt.
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