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| Low gasoline prices may seem like a great development, but they bring with them many negatives, such as discouraging commuters from using mass transit and encouraging some drivers to hold onto their gas guzzlers. |
By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR
Today's upbeat Page 1 story on low gasoline prices could have been written by the automobile dealers who advertise so heavily in The Record.
There is nothing here on how cheap fuel encourages more driving and aggravates air pollution and traffic congestion.
There is nothing on how low gas prices discourage drivers from trading in their gas guzzlers for a more fuel-efficient car, as Joseph Christ did (A-1).
Sales of hybrid and emissions-free electric cars fall with falling gasoline prices, and bus and rail commuters may decide to start driving again and fight those colossal traffic jams.
Piecemeal correction
On A-2 today, the editors finally got around to correcting a second error in Thursday's A-12 photo caption.
A drowsy copy editor misreported on which hand Giants rookie Odell Beckham Jr. wore bracelets from a cancer patient and used to make his celebrated touchdown catch.
"It was his right hand," the correction notes, stating what was plainly visible to readers.
Praise the Lord, I mean praise the editors for correcting the "hand" mistake in the newspaper today. All is still NOT quite "right" now in the world, I mean in the article.
ReplyDeleteThe photo caption in the online version still references the bracelets on Beckham's LEFT wrist.
Editors now need to pass around the collection bowl, I mean the correction bowl, to their staff so that these type of easily avoidable mistakes do not happen again.
I have to think that maybe photo captions are not reviewed by the reporters, who write the related article.
It is kind of hard for me to believe that a reporter, who repeatedly indicated the name of the Giants receiver as Odell Beckham, who caught the ball with his right hand, which had donated bracelets from a cancer patient on his right hand, would not have caught this outrageous mistaken identity and wrong hand in the photo caption.
Thanks again for the corrections. Best of luck in preventing these avoidable mistakes.
I think online is handled by a different staff, which makes far more errors than the print staff, if you can imagine that.
DeleteUsually, the reporter is long gone before the caption is written by others.
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