The raging New York Times-International Herald Tribune controversy dating back to last post has been resolved. A kind copy editor for the IHT personally e-mailed me (really, this happened -- he's a reader (our tentacles extend everywhere, even to Hong Kong(!))) and said it was a simple matter of an editor publishing the wrong byline in the print version of the IHT and that error getting automatically fed into the website, and the error is now
fixed.
Folks, we have our answer: Jack Curry is solely responsible for this piece of garbage. You're welcome for the detective work, America and world.
Labels: a-rod, meta-a-rod post, posts about posts about a-rod posts
Sure, posting about A-Rod every four minutes is its own reward, but it's also turned out to be some amazing detective work. We wrote about
this article, ostensibly written by Jack Curry for the New York Times, and we also wrote about
this article, supposedly written by Harvey Araton for the International Herald Tribune.
Weird thing is, they're almost word-for-word the same article. The IHT is owned by the NYT, but still, different bylines? What's going on? Theory: if infinite sportswriters write infinite A-Rod bashing articles on infinite typewriters, two will end up identical.
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Possible answer from Robert:
Oftentimes IHT stories are simply a rewrite of original NYT stories, posted under the bylines of the person who did the rewrite for the IHT. It's not always the case, but this seems to be one of those instances.This seems like a flawed system.
Labels: a-rod, meta-a-rod post, posts about a-rod posts
