Oh no, that NEVER happened to me. (Especially not when I did a story about Gov. Huntsman visiting the scene of flooding -- and the lede got so screwed up by a certain editor that it was incomprehensible babble. And yes, that's how we spell lede.) Thanks, Joe --- On Mon, 6/21/10, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Augh To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Monday, June 21, 2010, 5:43 PM On 21 Jun 2010, at 09:48, Joe Bauman wrote:
The Deseret News ran Patrick's press release, which of course was accurate.
LOL! Loyal to the end.
The Trib ran the inaccurate AP story. Hope they have the moxie to run a correction that points out Patrick is NOT to blame for the error (and that gets his title right).
Happily I just heard from the Trib's Sheena McFarland (she's also a subscriber here and an excellent science writer). I hasten to add that Sheena did not write the inaccurate piece in the Tribune, they just ran the wire story (I see the Trib has corrected their online piece). Sheena, however, is writing a story of her own that will run before eclipse day. BTW (Joe will relate to this), I received an email from the reporter that wrote the story that the AP went with. She apologized all over the place but noted that the story she wrote was accurate but that an editor changed things around. I'm sure that NEVER happened to Joe... :) patrick P.S. Nothing to do with astronomy but since we're talking newspapers I thought I'd throw in a funny headline I saw today. It seems the guy who may be taking over the oil mess at BP is named Bob Dudley. The headline read "Will Dudley Do Right". (Apologies to those not old enough to catch the pun.) _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com