Kill Duck Before Serving: Red Faces at The New York Times: A Collection of the Newspaper's Most Interesting, Embarrassing and Off-Beat Corrections

Linda, Amster

ISBN 10: 0312284276 / ISBN 13: 9780312284275

Published by St. Martin's Griffin January 2002, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kill Duck Before Serving: Red Faces at The New York Times: A Collection of the Newspaper's Most Interesting, Embarrassing and Off-Beat Corrections
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin January 2002
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312284276
• ISBN 13: 9780312284275
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Bloom, Tom
• Condition: USED Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • HUMOR General

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Synopsis

A humorous compilation of errors, inaccuracies, and misunderstandings from the pages of The New York Times encompasses everything from careless oversights and historical goofs to flopped photographs, misidentifications, and whimsical typos. Original.

About the Author

Linda Amster is manager of news research at The New York Times.

Dylan Loeb McClain is manager of graphics for Business Day.

Allan M. Siegal is an Assistant Managing Editor at The Times and co-author of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage.

Tom Bloom’s drawings have appeared in The NewYork Times, The New Yorker and Time magazine.