All sorts of mistakes
Weekly news round-up - a regular feature spotlighting some interesting stories from the week:
Meanwhile, when county cops cracked down on the local massage parlor trade last year, they did so in a decidedly Montgomery County kind of way: by paying someone else to do the deed. While detectives waited outside establishments in Bethesda and Wheaton, informers equipped with $100 of taxpayers' money had sex with suspected prostitutes. County Police Chief Charles A. Moose justified the unorthodox investigative practice at the time, saying, "We don't want our police officers to have these values and morals."
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"He's a real fun-loving guy who's also intellectually serious," says Larry Ingrassia, editor of the Journal's Money & Investing section. While they were posted together in the London bureau, where the ponytail-wearing (Daniel) Pearl kept a beach chair, Pearl invited some people he met on the subway to a staff Thanksgiving dinner. He also once wrote a story about sturgeon in verse; it never ran.
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Being in high-tech journalism these days means having a lot of unemployed friends. That ensures both a lot of freeloaders at table and a steady stream of media industry rumors. Among the most intriguing, especially to out-of-work associates, are whispers of new life springing from the ashes of the high-tech media apocalypse that claimed so many jobs and whole publications over the past 18 months.
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Because of knucklehead errors, a photograph caption in The Palm Beach Post Monday incorrectly identified one of the Three Stooges, as well as Abbott and Costello. The caption misidentified Curly Howard, at left, one of the Three Stooges, as Curly Joe Howard. Curly Howard, whose real name was Jerome Lester Horwitz, was the brother of Moe and Shemp Howard. Curly Joe DeRita was the sixth and last member to join the Stooges. The caption also incorrectly referred to Bud Abbott and Lou Costello when in fact the photo showed Costello and Abbott, at right. The errors appeared on Page 4E of the Accent section; the photos illustrated a story on the front page of Accent about movie shorts. We're pleased to note that we correctly identified Laurel and Hardy.
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A voter fraud conviction against a former city commissioner should be nullified because the defendant's lawyer was having an affair with his client's wife, a federal magistrate said.
Posted by tgibbons at February 08, 2002 02:20 PM