As I was reading the Times on the subway the other day, I did a double take during an otherwise pedestrian article I was slogging through. In mentioning a statement by the governor of the great State of New York, the article referred to him as James Paterson rather than David Paterson.
The New York Times is my favorite newspaper and I gave this a mental chuckle because some poor bleary-eyed editor at 1A.M. was probably just as bored as I was reading this piece and overlooked it harmlessly. Yet I'd imagine the Sean Hannities of the world wouldn't find it too much of a stretch to intone that since the paper mentioned a mystery novelist in place of the actual governor, this just goes to show that the Times supports fiction more than fact.
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