Tuesday, 16 August 2011

Rare special guest: NYTimes

It doesn't happen often, but I spotted an error in the New York Times today -- but they fixed it before I could capture it!

When I first read this article on my Blackberry, the photo caption stated "Supporters of the detained Indian rights activist Anna Hazare shout slogans during a rally in her support in Mumbai on Tuesday."

Anna Hazare is a man.  But by the time I ran back to my computer, they had already fixed the error. 

I see a lot of errors in photo captions.  I don't know much about the newspaper editing process, but I get the impression that photo captions are not written by the same person that writes the article. 

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