A Correction to a Real Error, or Simply a Regret?

Posted by Jason Ihle | No Comments

There’s this wonderful correction in the Times Arts Beat blog:

An earlier version of this post misquoted Mr. Remnick on his comparison between the book and a New Yorker article he had previously written. He said the book would not be a “pumped up” version of the article; he did not say that it would not be a “pimped out” version of the article.

Seeing as how this quote refers to a biography of Barack Obama, I wonder who really screwed up. Was it Dave Itzkoff, the writer of the blog post, who misheard what David Remnick said? Or did David Remnick later realize that referring to a “pimped out” version of his article about the first black President of the U.S. was perhaps a bit inappropriate?

Just a thought I had.

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