In an article for The Guardian, Norman Moss explains why he loves newspaper corrections columns.
Posted on August 10, 2004 09:53 AM. Filed under: fun.One feature I turn to in any serious newspaper is the corrections column. I often find something there to gladden my heart.
Like the recent New York Times item which explained that a reporter's description of a funeral in Jerusalem should have said that mourners "rent their clothes" not "rented their clothes". Or this from an earlier New York Times: "The first sentence should begin ‘Attorney Marcia Robinson Lowry’. Not ‘A tiny Mrs Robinson Lowry.’ (Ms Robinson is 5ft 7in)." [continue]