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Oy!!!
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OMG. That is one serious fuck-up.
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Grocka, stop reading the National Post before you go blind. Evil rag. Eeeevil.
I'm a little displeased with AP's wording of James Earl Ray "the man who shot and killed Mr. King." Indeed, it's standard quality newspaper practice to use less damning language (like "the man convicted of shooting and killing Mr. King") for most criminals. But it's especially unprofessional when one considers Mr. Ray's conviction has long been seen as controversial, with Dr. King's family spending the years leading up to Ray's death in prison proclaiming his innocence and demanding a retrial.
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It's like saying "Lee Harvey Oswald, the person who killed Kennedy." You can't say that, because Oswald never had a trial. You can say the accused or alleged assassin of Kennedy, but not THE person who did it.
Saltah'na
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Tom: I read the National Post too. On occaision, of course. One who reads it doesn't necessarily agree with what it has to say.
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Y'know, I'm rather skeptical as to whether this was really a mistake, or not. I mean, if the offending party was someone who didn't even know who James Earl Jones is, what are the chances they knew of James Earl Ray? I mean, if it had come out saying "James Earl Smith", or something, I could understand. But some ignorant employee wrote down the wrong name, and it just happened to be this name that was probably the single most inappropriate one possible?
If it really was done intentionally, their choice to blame on their non-English-speaking employees could be construed as "it was them damn foreigners again!"...
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I can see it happening. Like taking notes with the tv on. Sometimes you end up writing what your hearing, rather than what's out of the book.
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Or: "Say, Bob, what does James Earl Jones have to do with Martin Luther King?" "I don't know, Floyd. Nothing, I guess" "Well, then this order must be a typo. Shouldn't it be James Earl Ray?" "Yeah, I think that's right. He has more to do with King then Jones." "Right."
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