Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like to call your attention to a small but often-repeated editing error. There is no person named Neil Rudenstein at Princeton University; there is a Dean of the College named Neil Rudenstine. The New York Times Magazine printed his name correctly; both your columnist and Professor Kilson spelled it incorrectly. James D. Weinrich
...tallied an unearned run in the fourth, but the amazing Mets responded with three runs in their half of the inning to put the game out of reach. Singles by Don Hahn, Bud Harrelson and Staub, sandwiched around a hit-batsman and an infield error, produced the runs...
Except for the grave mistake involved in reporting Barba's death, the media's largest error in covering these events was its lack of discretion. The newspaper headlines went far beyond merely reporting the events. Instead of using neutral words such as "set afire" in headlines, the papers went to sensational, emotion-packed words like "torched...
Rejected for publication by the U.S. journal Science before Nature printed it, Boyle's paper has already stirred up a new scientific row. Meadows, refusing to change his apocalyptic vision, vigorously denies that any typographical errors crept into the published results. He adds: "Every single conclusion that we reported has no relationship to the error purported by Boyle." But Boyle points out that his computer runs all check out in other respects with the projections in the book-a good indication, he feels, that the program he used was the same as the one on which the book...
However, the scrappy Mets topped balls all around the infield in the sixth inning to grab four runs and the lead, 6-3. The New Yorkers kept the bases jammed and Oakland reliever Darold Knowles made a two-run throwing error...