Times Fesses Up to Misspelling Justice’s Name at Least Two Dozen Times
The New York Times has added an admittedly unusual correction to a story about an ethics prize given to three U.S. Supreme Court justices over the years by Fordham University Law School.
The article covers a controversy over this year’s award of the prize to Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who has supported abortion rights. Fordham is a Jesuit university, and Catholic critics say the award is an affront to church teachings on abortion.
The story notes that Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg received the award in prior years without controversy, even though they also voted in favor of abortion rights. That’s Ginsburg with a “u,” not an “e.”
The Times apparently got it wrong in earlier versions of the story. It printed this correction:
“An article in some editions on Wednesday about Fordham University’s plan to give an ethics prize to Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer misspelled the surname of another Supreme Court justice who received the award in 2001. She is Ruth Bader Ginsburg, not Ginsberg. The Times has misspelled her name at least two dozen times since 1980; this is the first correction the paper has published.”
Hat tip to Gawker.
