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Title: Kill Duck Before Serving: Red Faces at The New York Times : A Collection of the Newspaper's Most Interesting, Embarrassing and Off-Beat Corrections
by Linda Amster, Dylan McClain, Tom Bloom
ISBN: 0312284276
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date: January, 2002
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $13.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3

Customer Reviews

Rating: 2
Summary: Amusing? Sometimes. Hilarious? Not Really.
Comment: Be sure you buy this book with the right expectations. It's not a collection of uniformly hilarious bungles like the "Anguished English" series. As an earlier reviewer noted, there are a few genuinely funny bloopers mixed with many, many dry errors of fact, number, or spelling. There's an irritating undertone of "Look how we at the great New York Times can laugh at ourselves" here, and it doen't make for entertaining reading.

Rating: 2
Summary: If thai pose make you laugh...
Comment: The truly humorous entries are few and far between. The bulky rest make an interesting study of writing mistakes which might be helpful to aspiring editors.

Rating: 5
Summary: Kill Duck Before Serving: Red Faces at The New York Times
Comment: Hilarious and informative, this collection of corrections from the ever-so-proper New York Times should please anyone who has ever worked in journalism and anyone who either loves or hates The Times. The wry chapter headings -- "Half-Baked," "Sorry, Wrong Number," "Quote, Unquote" and so on -- are a perfect set up for the send up. The book takes its title from a correction published on April 25, 1981: "An article about decorative cooking incorrectly described a presentation of Muscovy duck by Michael Fitoussi, a New York chef. In preparing it, Mr. Fitoussi uses a duck that has been killed." From other entries, you can learn such things as how many bras Ivana Trump buys at a time, the correct definition of a nanometer and how to spell the names of famous artists, politicians and sports figures (and how many times The Times got each of them wrong).

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