The Atlantic's Boldest

Because the healthy lads and ladies who work for the New York City's Department of Corrections have acquired the moniker of New York's Boldest, this is the weekly corrections column.

It's been a while since I wrote a corrections post. That's not because I haven't made errors... just because I haven't had the time to compile all of them. This week I:

1. Referred to Rep. Bart Stupak as Rep. Bart "Starpark."

2. Reasoned that Michigan had 31 counties. It has way more.

3. Failed to check my phone messages, thereby depriving the Florida Democratic Party of a chance to respond to a post about their delegate situation with the DNC.

4. Stole CNN video of Barack Obama's three-pointer.

5. Failed to mention that John Brabender's entire firm, BrabenderCox, will be assisting Rudy Giuliani.

6. Failed to appropriately credit NBC News's Mark Murray for pointing me to John Edwards's use of the "Lincoln bedroom" accusation against Sen. Clinton.

7. Forgot, twice, to put the "ex" before Mitt Romney's gubernatorial title.

Comments

When reporters converse with "ex-" governors, do they use "Mr. Romney" or "Governor Romney"? I note a lot of people still refer to Bill Clinton as "Mr. President".

Also I think "former" is better than "ex-", which has some sort of negative connotation.

Posted by Nicholas Beaudrot | August 24, 2007 3:18 PM

Repent, my child. Ask the Good Lord for forgiveness for your editorial sins, and when you do that I want you to say twelve Our Fathers and eight Hail Marys. Do pay attention when you type, and try not to ignore your answering machine.

Now go and sin no more.

Posted by lampwick | August 24, 2007 4:07 PM

2 quibbles: first of all, the Obama video thing might qualify as fair use (though IANAL) and secondly, these correction posts would go better if they had links to the posts where the error was made. Just a thought, don't mean to sound snarky.

Posted by Dan Miller | August 27, 2007 11:31 AM