Andrew Beaujon at Poynter reports what must be the correction of the week, and a contender for the correction of the year. It comes from The New York Times:
The TV Watch column on Tuesday, about the Showtime show “Homeland,” misidentified the setting where the characters Carrie and Brody first had sex. It was in a car, not a lakeside cottage.
The author of the column, Alessandra Stanley, now a TV critic at the Times and according to Wikipedia a former foreign correspondent for the Times and TIME magazine, has a history of making mistakes. The Columbia Journalism Review wrote about this in 2009, as did Clark Hoyt, then the public editor of the Times. The standards editor, Craig Whitney, is quoted by Hoyt as saying that "we cannot tolerate this, and have tightened procedures to rule out a recurrence."
-Paul Raeburn
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