Posted on 10/12/2008 6:01:59 PM PDT by pissant
The New York Times took the unusual step of quickly editing and replacing a hysterical post by hockey blogger Lynn Zinser that covered Sarah Palin's appearance at the Philadelphia Flyers home opener where she was invited to drop a ceremonial puck. In her original post Zinser exaggerated the boos by the crowd, attacked Flyers owner Ed Snider for inviting Palin to the event and appears to have fabricated the discomfort felt by NHL players Scott Gomez and Mike Richards.
That account has since been changed. Somewhere along the line Zinser gutted the original article and replaced it with a new one that came a bit closer to reality. However the repost didn't occur before the original article shot across the internet where it was eventually picked up by Greg Mitchell at Editor & Publisher and flogged as a "political scoop".
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
The Onion once had the headlines: “Philly fans stone an old lady,” and “At long last Eagles win Super Bowl. Fans boo!”
Didn’t Bob Uecker claim that the only time he saw a Philly crowd cheer was when a fan fell out of the upper deck?
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