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January 08, 2007
The Stranger Makes Hilarious Mistakes
The Stranger is an entertainment rag(see: magazine) local to Seattle. I read it off and on when I had glancing contact with Portland radio's Daria O'Neil, Gustav and Bill Prescott's Morning Radio Shows. We're talking late 90s early 00s, kids.
Unfortunatley I forgot about The Stranger and its strangeness. That is until I caught up on my Regret the Error. As they explain it, no one does corrections like The Stranger.
For example, when its theatre editor confused two playwrights, the paper made him complete a quiz. That earned praise from us in our round-up of the year in media errors and corrections. Now the paper has published its own round-up of corrections.
Some examples follow:
- Bradley Steinbacher, the managing editor of The Stranger, regrets sharing an office with Dan Savage, editor of The Stranger, especially since Mr. Savage often changes clothes in said office, during which Mr. Savage routinely threatens to place his scrotal sack on the back of Mr. Steinbacher's neck. Sometimes this threat is sung to the tune of Frère Jacques. Both the threat and the state of Savage's scrotal sack are regrettable.
- Stranger news writer Sarah Mirk regrets not double-checking the visiting hours for Yakima County Jail on November 5, resulting in a very, very disappointing end to a six-hour drive through a blinding rainstorm
- Stranger associate editor David Schmader regrets not buying more of that mushroom fudge from that lovely woman at Hempfest.
- Christopher Frizzelle, the arts editor of The Stranger, regrets being so stoned the month of August that he let associate editor Charles Mudede write a review of a book that was published 140 years ago.
- With regard to Ms. Mirk, Stranger news editor Josh Feit regrets not getting the young, impressionable Ms. Mirk hooked on crack and/or knocked up, which might have compelled her to drop out of college and stay on The Stranger's staff.
Damn. The Stranger makes me laugh.
(via regret the error)
Posted by Groonk at January 8, 2007 08:12 PM | Ministry of Culture, Linkable, eMag
