Tuesday, November 20, 2007

MBP of the Week: New York Times

The New York Times posted this correction on its website Sunday:

“An entry on Nov. 4 in the Holiday Movies listings misidentified the actor who portrays a member of a small-time crime duo preparing to rob a local church in ‘First Sundays.’ He is Tracy Morgan — not Chi McBride, who plays the pastor at the church.”

(Hat-tip: Regret the Error.)

For those keeping score, this is the sixth time I’ve featured a New York Times mistake since I began cataloging Misidentified Black People nine months ago.
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 20, 2007 at 2:20 PM

    I'd be more outraged if I didn't see an almost daily stream of stupid mistakes the Times makes on Gawker. It's not right that they keep misidentifying black people, but their stupidity is not limited to us.

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  2. Undercover Black ManNovember 20, 2007 at 2:23 PM

    ^ Point taken.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 20, 2007 at 3:54 PM

    Don't know why you're being so negative, it could of been worse. In their correction the Times could of put up a picture of Morgan Freeman misidentified as Tracy Morgan.

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  4. EricNovember 20, 2007 at 4:16 PM

    Just wait till the claim that Samuel L. Jackson recorded "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah."

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