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Originally Posted by daniellaaarisen
Is it just me, or has the consistency of thorough research dramatically increased in the last few decades? Would current major publications mistake names as easily as the writer did in this article?
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Its just you.
Errors- for reasons ranging from lack of proper research to just plain sloppy editing- happen all the time, even in high profile periodicals. Not even the most basic/prominent people/events of our lifetimes are immune. Example-
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/opinion/02pubed.html