Great Puzzles of the Universe

How, exactly, does Alessandra Stanley a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/opinion/02pubed.html"keep her job?/abr /br /p/pblockquotepTHE TIMES published an especially embarrassing a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/pageoneplus/corrections.html"correction/a on July 22, fixing seven errors in a single article — an a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/arts/television/18appraisal.html"appraisal/a of a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/walter_cronkite/index.html"Walter Cronkite/a, the CBS anchorman famed for his meticulous reporting. The newspaper had wrong dates for historic events; gave incorrect information about Cronkite’s work, his colleagues and his program’s ratings; misstated the name of a news agency, and misspelled the name of a satellite. /p p“Wow,” said Arthur Cooper, a reader from Manhattan. “How did this happen?”/p The short answer is that a television critic with a history of errors wrote hastily and failed to double-check her work, and editors who should have been vigilant were not./blockquoteAnd it would be one thing if she was a first-rate critic or something, but she (unlike most regular span style="font-style: italic;"Times/span critics) is a flyweight.br /br /Excellent background a href="http://www.cjr.org/regret_the_error/wrong_wrong_wrong_wrong_wrong.php"here/a.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7163938-1164877886922664655?l=lefarkins.blogspot.com'//div