In this article about the Boston Celtics, the Associated Press uses "affects" where they should use "effects." See the first sentence in this screen shot:
Thanks to my friend Tiff for alerting me to this error. You better be wearing a Celtics T-shirt in L.A. tonight, Tiffers! I hope to be dancing like Gino in the streets of Boston around midnight.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Fighting the Effects of Bad Journalism
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Thanks for the shout out!
The Punctuator
GO CELTS!!! Evidently, the 'affects' didn't 'effect' them too much ;) I'm loving being a Boston fan in LA right now!!!
Yeah, that was a complete trouncing last night! I stupidly decided to watch the game near the Garden and got stuck among all these riot police and crazy people.
oh wait, duh... This isn't a posting from the Globe, but the AP. Never mind. :)
Yeah, the story appeared in several publications! I noticed that a few actually corrected the error from the wire story, but most kept the error in.
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