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The Irony of It All

by John Cole|  July 23, 20035:00 pm| 2 Comments

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The American Prospect staff, in another anonymous posting on their political blog Tapped, heaps praise on the NY Times, for, of all things, transparency:

THE NEW TRANSPARECY. Check it out! The New York Times has launched a page with bios and headshots of the paper’s editorial board members. Great idea! Tapped hopes The Washington Post follows the example and does the same. Posted at 01:34 PM

Apparently the irony of it all has escaped them. And they are the ones who misspelled transparency.

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  1. 1.

    Jonas

    July 24, 2003 at 8:28 am

    Dude. Commenting on misspelling on other blogs? You’re the one who mispelled ‘Rickey’ (see below).

  2. 2.

    John Cole

    July 24, 2003 at 9:43 am

    Jonas, I was making fun of the fact that they are saluting the transparency at the NY Times, while ALL OF THEIR POSTS ARE ANONYMOUS.

    I mentioned that they misspelled transparency so that 50 people wouldn’t tell me that I had screwed it up.

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