Rodent Regatta

Yesterday, I picked up a link to a New York Times article at Philip Greenspun’s site. In it Jane Tanner reported that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway had recently purchased Clayton Homes, Inc. of Maryville, TN for $17.5 billion. WRONG. The company was purchased for $12.50 per share or $1.7 billion.

Minor error, right? Just a typographical error? After all this is just the business section of one of the most widely-read newspapers in the country.

>From Jayson Blair to Howell Raines to Frank Rich, I see distortion, obfuscation and lousy journalistic standards. It’s time we wake up and realize that our media outlets have agendas largely unencumbered by integrity.