Should I call in the correction?
From a local newspaper story on the death of a distinguished Albanian:
Daniel and Millie Grossberg live next to the Miyashiros on Stonehenge Drive in Albany. They said Miyashiro loved nature, and had a beautiful garden and a goldfish pond loved by neighborhood kids. A blue herring recently ate the goldfish, Millie Grossberg said.
Keenan pointed out that an eagle could have dropped a live fish into the goldfish pond, which then proceeded to eat the other fish. But, as he noted, herrings are not predatory.
Daniel and Millie Grossberg live next to the Miyashiros on Stonehenge Drive in Albany. They said Miyashiro loved nature, and had a beautiful garden and a goldfish pond loved by neighborhood kids. A blue herring recently ate the goldfish, Millie Grossberg said.
Keenan pointed out that an eagle could have dropped a live fish into the goldfish pond, which then proceeded to eat the other fish. But, as he noted, herrings are not predatory.
Labels: corrections, dilemmas, newspapers
posted by frank b. at
6:58 PM
5 Comments:
I like how you trusted us to figure out what they meant to say on our own. It shows that you hold your readers in great steam.
I think Keenan and those "neighborhood kids" should try to sort this out. Might be a fun life-science investigation for them, and will keep Miyashiro's memory burning bright.
This is a particularly common misnomer throughout the U.S.
Funny, "Miyashiro" doesn't sound Albanian to me.
Frank...I'm assuming this is from the TU. I'm going to give my friend Mark (who's a copy editor there) a hard time. Thank you.
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