If you didn't live in Boston and read [url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic... Washington Post article dated yesterday[/url]:
BOSTON -- The winner of the 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race was all but decided as the seven-boat fleet departed this weekend on the last offshore leg of the 'round-the-world event, across the Atlantic to Ireland....
Boston's Fan Pier buzzed with activity during the VOR as city-dwellers renewed acquaintance with their once- great sailing port. Then they were gone, the lightning-quick boats, bound for Ireland over a treacherous sea.
you might think the race had already left Boston. In fact, all seven boats are still at the Fan Pier dock and won't leave until about 1 pm tomorrow afternoon (Saturday, 5/16). Is this kind of writing now considered acceptable journalism at the Washington Post?
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Papers get caught doing that, from time to time
By neilv
Fri, 05/15/2009 - 9:18pm
I've always thought it's shamefully sloppy, if not outright unethical.
classic
By mark baard
Fri, 05/15/2009 - 10:05pm
but what is the excuse they most often provide?
Let's ask Mitch Albom
By adamg
Fri, 05/15/2009 - 10:37pm
He might have some insight.
Oh, I remember that one
By neilv
Fri, 05/15/2009 - 11:08pm
Their response was shameful. At the same time, I suspect they just had bad luck in getting caught at something that's not uncommon.