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Corrections
The New York Times ^
| 8/31/2003
| New York Times
Posted on 09/01/2003 6:17:17 PM PDT by 07055
The Preludes column on Aug. 17, about causes and effects of long hours on the job, misstated the number of hours that Americans work per week, on average. It is 39, not 49, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Because of an editing error, an article last Sunday about the 1963 civil rights March on Washington referred incorrectly in some copies to a Civil War general to whom one marcher referred in a speech. The general, William T. Sherman, was a Union general, not a Confederate general.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corrections; errors; nyt
Its amazing how many errors which "The newspaper of record" makes every day. Here are two of the more egregious errors recently acknowledged.
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posted on
09/01/2003 6:17:18 PM PDT
by
07055
To: 07055
Correction: Last week in an article on Capitalist exploitation of the working class we erred in saying that only 70 known people died in the Former Soviet Union. An editing error dropped the 6 zeroes after "70".
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posted on
09/01/2003 6:39:57 PM PDT
by
Bogey78O
(The Clinton's have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured/killed -Peach)
To: Bogey78O
I would like to see the original article about work hours. I imagine the point was that we work so many more hours than the Europeans--49 hours a week. Only someone who has never worked for a living could make such a stupid blunder.
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posted on
09/01/2003 6:44:51 PM PDT
by
07055
To: 07055
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posted on
09/01/2003 6:54:36 PM PDT
by
boycott
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