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I am an appellate lawyer and persnickety dude. As a hobby, I correct typos in the Times, which no longer employs copy editors and consequently has tons of typos
Joined September 2019
Looks like we aren’t getting a correction, just a tweet from the Standards editor that requests for more detail about the racist source were “fair feedback” (thanks), but really unnecessary because they gave readers his alias so we could Google him.
We heard from readers who wanted more detail about this initial source. That’s fair feedback. We printed his online alias so readers could learn more about the person. The purpose of this story was to help illuminate the thinking and background of a major mayoral candidate.
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It seems unfortunate that the new assistant managing editor for Standards is not bright enough to articulately explain why he thinks this piece is newsworthy, and is stupid enough to believe that simply asserting that “we believe” it is would somehow help matters.
We believe Mr. Mamdani’s thinking and decision-making, laid out in his words, was newsworthy and in line with our mission to help readers better know and understand top candidates for major offices.
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RT @nyttypos: @nytimes Under your style guide you capitalize counties when it’s preceded by a list of named counties. @aimee_ortiz
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Another funny thing about this to me is that whenever a Times reporter has pitched me an interview, their editors tell them it can’t be anonymous, but when a Nazi race scientist whose identity is already known hits you up with hacked transcripts, you agree to keep him anonymous
NEW: Mamdani has made his identity as a Muslim immigrant of South Asian descent a key pt of his appeal. But he claimed another label when he applied to Columbia. Asked to ID his race, he checked that he was “Asian” but also “Black or African American”.
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When a sentence ends with a parenthetical, the sentence’s period goes outside the parentheses, not inside, and the Times’s is a style guide violation for The Times’s. cc @sgoood @siamichel
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You need to change that to which or cut the comma before it, @dionnesearcey. See your style guide.
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I think I am taking today off, but M.I.A.’s, the possessive of one M.I.A., is an error for M.I.A.s, the plural. Your rule on pluralizing single letters, like p’s and q’s, does not apply to an acronym (or initialism). Bonus extra period. @damiencave
After taking yesterday mostly off, typo 1 of the day is suggesting for suggested. @migold @RobertJimison @meganmineiro
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I don’t think you can just stealth-edit in the information that your race-scientist source of Mamdani’s hacked college app “writes often about I.Q. and race”; I think you’re going to have to run a correction and admit that your original copy was wildly misleading. cc @Rogene
NEW: Mamdani has made his identity as a Muslim immigrant of South Asian descent a key pt of his appeal. But he claimed another label when he applied to Columbia. Asked to ID his race, he checked that he was “Asian” but also “Black or African American”.
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Typos 37 and 38 of the day: “aye’s” is a bad error for “aye”s. You pluralize outside the quotes (because the plural isn’t what you’re quoting), and you don’t use an apostrophe to do it. You also used the same full name and title twice. @CatieEdmondson
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Typo 36 of the day: a three-and-a-half minute video is a bad error for a three-and-a-half-minute video that means the video was one minute long, or minute as in very small, and three-and-a-half in some unspecified dimension (stars?). @anniecorreal
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Typo 35 of the day (I already flagged one of these):.
@nytimes This sentence is missing a period (the one in the parenthetical doesn’t count, I hope you know that), and you are missing a comma before an attribution tag. @kchangnyt @michaelroston
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RT @nyttypos: @nytimes You repeated three full names, contrary to your style. @Schwartzesque @adamliptak
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