Amazing! The Tribune actually has the candor to tell its readers that the Tribune has no authority! That is, Jay Pridmore’s March 27 review of the Peace Museum’s Paul Robeson exhibit (Friday section) reported that “there were too many typographical errors in the labels for the exhibit to have authority.”
Isn’t that exactly what has happened to the Tribune? Not an issue goes by without a plethora of typographical and–far worse–grammatical and factual errors. How are we supposed to teach our children proper English when the Tribune (which runs full-page ads urging us to get our children to read the paper) doesn’t know the difference between “affect” and “effect”? How reliable can the Tribune be when it changes a person’s name within one story? The recent obituary on Dr. Noah Levin quotes one of his son’s, “Daniel” Levin. But at the end of the story it refers to him as “David” Levin. Daniel Levin has never been known as David. I know. He and his family have been friends of mine for more than 40 years.
Given Mr. Pridmore’s remarks about typographical errors and authority, it’s clear that relying on the Tribune as a paper of record has become a mighty risky business.
