So you
want to get into journalism? Howse about the reputed biggest name in news
magazines, TIME? (Full disclosure: I’ve proudly served on the rewrite desk and as a copy
editor at newspapers through five decades … kinda scary when I put it that way,
but …)
Not as
scary as this, though. The SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT column in the Oct. 30
issue of TIME magazine. (Just inside the THE GODDESS MYTH cover, in about 5-point
type … Barely legible and when you get a load of it, you’ll understand why the “editors”
wanted to try to keep this under wraps.)
Here
goes:
SETTING
THE RECORD STRAIGHT
“In the
View* (Oct. 16), we mischaracterized
the climate on Mars as being similar to the desert near Dubai. Mars is colder
than Earth. In an Oct. 23 interview with Dustin Hoffman, we misstated that his
character in The Graduate seduced an older woman. In fact, she seduced him. In
the same issue, in ‘Next Generation Leaders,’ Sebastian Kurz was described as a
favorite to be elected President of Austria. His party’s Oct. 15 victory is
set to make him Chancellor. In ‘Google Searches for Its Voice,’ we
mischaracterized James Giangola’s previous work experience. And in ‘Ivana Trump
Has Her Say,’ a photo caption misidentified her as Marla Maples.”
* Blog keeper's note: the standing TIME column is actually called The View.
* Blog keeper's note: the standing TIME column is actually called The View.
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