More Gridiron Follies

Howard Kurtz’s column this morning has several worthwhile items, but the one that jumped out at us was yet another correction to last Sunday’s Post story on the off the record Gridiron dinner.

Evidently the Post’s Neely Tucker, who reported his story on the dinner without actually being able to attend the event, goofed on a skit mocking Armstrong Williams. While it was planned, the skit never actually happened–but Tucker reported it anyway.

This is on top of the correction that already ran about a parody of “Sweet Home Alabama” that didn’t happen. More puzzling, though, is how that correction explains the article mistakenly “described reaction” to the Alabama parody. It’s understandable that sources might, with good intentions, mention in advance skits that don’t happen in the final version–but how do you “mistakenly” report reaction to something that never happened?

It sounds like the Post might want to reconsider how it writes these stories in the future. It ends up just making them look silly. Including a title mistake and a incorrectly labeled photo caption, that makes for four mistakes in last Sunday’s article, and leaves us with a question: Which was more laughable — the Gridiron or the Post’s reporting on it?

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