SCC 1/ In a Jan. 30 The World, Joshua Keating misspelled the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim. //Now, this isnt easy to spell. But that means that youre finding the name somewhere. So get it right. +5 2/ In a Jan. 30 Video, Paca Thomas incorrectly referred to the deadly bacteria strain Yersinia pestis as a virus. //Thats pretty important. +30 3/ In a Jan. 30 XX Factor, Jessica Grose misspelled Christian Peters last name. //At first this seemed unlikely, but then I realized how tempting it is to write “Peters” rather than “Peter”. Ill give her this one. -5 4/ In a Jan. 29 Bad Astronomy, Phil Plait misstated that all four candidates for Texas lieutenant governor were promoting creationism; those are just the four Republican candidates. //There are Democratic candidates? +5 5/ In a Jan. 29 Science, Warren Cornwall misidentified the passenger pigeon as the carrier pigeon. //I do that. But I m not writing a “Science” piece. +10 6/ In a Jan. 29 Weigel, David Weigel misspelled former Pennsylvania Rep. Jason Altmires last name. //Weigel. +10 //Yeah. Names. +10 7/ In a Jan. 28 DoubleX, Hanna Rosin misstated that Melissa Harris-Perry had been denied tenure at Princeton. She’d been denied a full professorship, not tenure. //Theres a whole article about it. Rosins? +20 8/ Due to an editing error, a Jan. 28 Good Word misstated that the Oxford comma comes after the last item in a series. It comes after the penultimate item. //Editing error. +10 //Always unpleasant when you get a language error in a language piece. +20 9/ In a Jan. 28 The Kids, Melinda Wenner Moyer misstated that none of the tests of conventional produce for pesticides that she cites rinsed the produce before residue testing. Most did not, but the USDAs Pesticide Data Program does rinse produce before residue testing. //Hmmm. Thats significant. +30 10/ In a Jan. 27 Music Box, Carl Wilson described Jared Leto’s Dallas Buyers Club role as being a transvestite. Leto played a transgender woman. He also misspelled Lindsey Buckinghams first name. //This is really big. +50 11/ The headlines for a Jan. 27 Science implied that thousands of schools use taxpayer money to teach creationism. State laws in Louisiana and Tennessee permit teachers to teach creationism in addition to evolution, but it is unknown how many actually do. //Im OK with increasing alarm at this. -5 12/ In a Jan. 27 XX Factor, Amanda Marcotte misspelled the last name of patient Sarah Tombler-Gimpel. //Meh. +5 13/ In a Jan. 26 Slatest, Daniel Politi described a shotgun round as a bullet. Shotguns typically fire shells that contain either shot or a slug. //Yeah. “Shot” gun. +5 14/ In a Jan. 24 Bitwise, David Auerbach mistakenly stated that Frona Kahn was one of the co-founders of the Learning Company. //? +10 15/ In a Jan. 24 The World post, Joshua Keating misidentified the traditional religion of the Ruthenians as Greek Orthodoxy. It was actually a form of Eastern Catholicism. //Did not know there was such a thing as Eastern Catholicism. Get it together, Christians! +5 16/ In a Jan. 21 Education, Sara Mead misstated that the New Jersey Supreme Court ordered the state to provide full-day prekindergarten in some districts. The court ordered half-day pre-K. //About two times wrong. +15 17/ In a Jan. 8 Lexicon Valley blog post, Bennett Muraskin used some unreliable sources and resulting in a number of untruths and inaccuracies. The original post remains, but a follow-up post outlining the errors, as well as further explanation, can be read here. //When you need a whole article to correct mistakes... +200 TOTAL Base 170 Plus 440 Less 10 Total 600 Base/Total 28%
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:41:49 +0000
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