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ELECTION INNOVATIONS BUSINESS OF NEWS MORE New Issue! B–Roll Special Report Tow Center About Us Join Donate Advertise Mailbox Resources b a x Archives:Behind the News Wrong, http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/wrong_wrong_wrong_wrong_wrong.php Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong Alessandra Stanley’s troubling history of error By Craig Silverman July 24, 2009 1000 words a Shareon Twitter b Shareon Facebook Emailthis story Alessandra Stanley has fallen http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/new_york_times_dr_kings_error.1.html back into old habits. This week, the New York Times television critic was responsible for a long, embarrassing correction: An appraisal on Saturday about Walter Cronkite’s career included a number new york of errors. In some copies, it misstated the date that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed and referred incorrectly to Mr. Cronkite’s coverage of D-Day. Dr. King was killed on April 4, 1968, not April 30. Mr. Cronkite covered the D-Day landing from a warplane; he did not storm the beaches. In addition, Neil Armstrong set foot on the new york times moon on July 20, 1969, not July 26. “The CBS Evening News” overtook “The Huntley-Brinkley Report” on NBC in the ratings during the 1967-68 television season, not after Chet Huntley retired in 1970. A communications satellite used to relay correspondents’ reports from around the world was Telstar, not Telestar. Howard K. Smith was not one of the CBS correspondents Mr. Cronkite would turn to for reports from the field after he became anchor of “The CBS Evening News” in 1962; he left CBS before Mr. Cronkite was the anchor. Because of an editing error, the appraisal also misstated the name of the news agency for which Mr. Cronkite was Moscow bureau chief after World War II. At that time it was United Press, not United Press International. In fairness, I’ll emphasize that the story’s seventh mistake was the result of an editing error. But six errors in a story she had ample time to work on and check is not acceptable, especially for a reporter with such a troubling history of error. In 2005, a Chicago Tribune columnist wrote about her inaccuracies, and ot
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