There were a couple of really great passages today in Gene Weingarten’s online chat on the Washington Post site. Here’s a tidbit:
We are coming up on the 16th anniversary of the greatest correction ever to run in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. It sprang from a story that ran in the old North Fulton Extra on Sept. 17, 1987 about a Girl Scout program aimed at teaching girls about careers, drug awareness and prevention of pregnancy and it contained this passage:
“Mrs. Hamby, who is entering her first year as a Cadette leader, but her fifth year as a troop leader, said troop leaders are not experts on the new interests of Girl Scouts. So they take the girls on field trips where experts can present the information. “It’s not really a point where you sit down and talk to them about sensitive subjects,” she said. Instead, troop leaders take girls to places like a sperm bank where programs are designed to inform girls of sexual education in terms they can understand.”
A few days later the following correction was published:
“A paragraph in a story about Girl Scouts in the Thursday edition of the North Fulton Extra should have stated that troop leaders take girls to places such as Fernbank Science Center, where programs are designed to inform girls of sexual education in terms they can understand.”
The rest of the chat is great too, check it out!
