The Atlantic's Boldest** -- A Weekly Corrections Column

** -- wherein New York's Boldest refers to the officers of the Department of Corrections.

In an article about the Clintons, I transposed a letter and rendered "tough" as "touch."

Former McCain communications director Brian Jones is from New Jersey, not New York.

To mourn the withdrawal of ex-VA Gov. Jim Gilmore, I composed a haiku and neglected to mention that my muse for news haikus was Jake Tapper, the ABC News correspondent.

ABC News' Jake Tapper
Brilliant, Incisive, Witty
Master of Haiku

Finally, I confused On Message Inc's Brad Todd with CNN's Brian Todd.

Apologies all around.

Comments

That's all very brave of you.

Now just tell us all, we're waiting: when you said "fairly or unfairly" the press had decided to "bury" John Edwards, why did you think that might be fair? And what evidence did you have of this decision by the press having been made? And why do you stand idly by at such a profoundly undemocratic decision, made by people whose function is to report on elections, not decide them, instead of exposing and opposing it?

Posted by David in NY | July 20, 2007 10:47 AM

Dear Marc:

There are over one hundred and thirty comments explaining why you are everything that's wrong, broken, corrupt, immoral, lazy, stupid, and destructive to the country about the DC political press (and why political journalists in the last decade or two have sunk to about the level of serial killers in opinion polls of professions respected by Americans)...

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/07/romney_wore_makeup_film_at_ele.php

...and there are posts about it by the most widely-read bloggers in the country, with a readership literally in the millions, including one titled 'This Is Why We Revile Them' (and yes, that means you)...

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/this-is-why-we-revile-them-by-digby.html

..and still not a word from you. No wonder you've had for so long such a hot-and-bothered man-crush on Bush and Cheney, you are a man of the same cloth. That and being a water-carrier for the heinously corrupt Republican-dominated establishment of course, but that's a given.

Posted by mz | July 20, 2007 11:55 AM

I accept your apology.

Posted by Jake | July 20, 2007 12:40 PM

Ambinder,

Have you come up with a reason why it's acceptable for the Washington Press Corps to decode to "bury" a candidate they do not personally like ? Have you read the comments to that insipid post yet? Are you ready to name names of the 'reporters" who have this idea? Do you have info on a cabal of reporters who have made the conscious decision to skew their stories to bury a candidate? if so, why haven't you reported their names?

-John Burns

And yes, I'm going to ask you this on every thread until you get the cojones to answer it.

Posted by John Burns | July 20, 2007 12:56 PM