See Dubya notes that the New York Times has rescued the passenger pigeon from extinction — in Baghdad.
It doesn’t surprise me that a newspaper would be in denial about an extinct species. The New York Times doesn’t think it’s going extinct, either.
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The NYT is the Dodo bird of fact checking.
Perfect Sense (b6ec8c) — 3/4/2007 @ 4:31 pmTo be fair, I have this mental misfire where I sometimes think of those pigeons that people keep in crates on the roof as passenger pigeons, too. I think it’s because these homing pigeons were used as messenger pigeons during WWI and the like, and the “messenger” gets mixed up with “passenger”.
So I can see how it happened but yeah, poor fact checking.
aplomb (b1076c) — 3/4/2007 @ 4:32 pmI wish they were right; Martha’s memorial would be a happier place if they could find some passenger pigeons still alive.
Robert Crawford (46b1a4) — 3/4/2007 @ 5:07 pmThe NYT has removed the “passenger” from the pigeons in the story. Incidents like this are why we still need fact-checkers and copy-editors.
Bradley J. Fikes (1c6fc4) — 3/4/2007 @ 6:34 pmFowl but accurate!
Jim Treacher (15574e) — 3/4/2007 @ 10:12 pmOh, you think you’re punny, do you Jim?
Scott Jacobs (a1de9d) — 3/4/2007 @ 10:18 pmNibbles // Open Post — 2007.03.05…
Just read ’em. Maybe I’ll find time to do more with ’em later. (And some things that are too short to excerpt and too good to not mention.) Please feel free to use this post for comments and trackbacks not…
Bill's Bites (72c8fd) — 3/4/2007 @ 11:24 pmBill’s Nibbles // Open Post — 2007.03.05 …
Some Bill’s Bites posts, some things I excerpted and linked but I’m sending you to the original post. I may rearrange the order of the items within this post as I add new things that I think belong above the…
Old War Dogs (72c8fd) — 3/4/2007 @ 11:28 pmAnd the GREAT AUKS are swimming up the hudson river theres a HEATH HEN residing in MIAMI theres some COROLINA PARAKEETS living in WASHINGTON D.C. and a whole bunch of LABRADOR DUCKS have taken over MARTHAS VINYARD SQUAWK SQAWK WE BIRDS ARE BACK SQUAWK SQUAWK SQAUWK
krazy kagu (91408b) — 3/9/2007 @ 7:48 am