Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Read The Times Again!

Just follow the above link to LA Observed. Kevin's formatting of the story is far better than my two gerbils could ever produce since all they seem to want to produce these days is... even more incompetent gerbils.

And while the error rate is far better at the Los Angeles Times than it was in the past, getting things right - and getting them corrected - is still a problem at the paper.

But for those of you who would like to view a few examples for the good old days (under a previous regime) when reading the corrections section of the LAT was daily blood sport for bloggers, read the below three consecutive posts concerning a really bad run of luck in increasingly fishy... fish corrections

http://lacowboy.blogspot.com/2005/03/to-err-is-human-but-to-screw-up-even.html

http://lacowboy.blogspot.com/2005/04/la-times-corrections-du-jour-proof.html

http://lacowboy.blogspot.com/2005/10/dreaded-la-times-fish-curse-strikes.html

(and you can ignore the links at the bottom of the last link - as they link to the two links above)