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De :   corrections@ft.com
Objet : Correction - Transneft
Date : 26 avril 2006 01:35:03 HAEC
À :   jeromeguillet@yahoo.fr

Dear Jérôme Guillet,

Thank you for your email regarding the Transneft headline. This was indeed a regrettable error that slipped through despite our rigorous editing and checking procedures. We will be publishing a correction.

Best regards,
(name)
Night News Editor



In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Apr 26th, 2006 at 03:05:21 AM EST
I've seen the correction in their letter/editorials page. It goes:


The headline of an article on April 25 stated "Transneft warns Asia pipe will divert gas from Europe". This should have said oil.

Not really enough, but better than nothing.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Apr 26th, 2006 at 04:34:01 AM EST
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Maybe they'll be more careful next time. You never know.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Apr 26th, 2006 at 04:35:39 AM EST
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Well done Jerome!

Maybe FT should start offering you a salary as a consulting editor? ;)

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid on Wed Apr 26th, 2006 at 06:28:42 AM EST
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How rigorous can their editing really be if they confuse oil and gas?

Mikhail from SF
by Tsarrio (dj_tsar@yahoo.com) on Wed Apr 26th, 2006 at 12:40:44 PM EST
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It was an American who thinks oil is a synonym for gasoline. See? They weren't even wrong really.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Apr 26th, 2006 at 12:44:40 PM EST
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Even if that's what they meant they were still wrong. The pipelines transport oil, not gasoline.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid on Wed Apr 26th, 2006 at 01:00:46 PM EST
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It's just a cop-out, clearly. Jerome demanded a retraction on the front page and they don't seem to have published his LTE.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Apr 26th, 2006 at 12:54:44 PM EST
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 Ha! I always love it when they describe their "editing and checking procedures" (notice how these two are separated?) as "rigorous"!

 Cracks me up every time!

 When having spotted something false in the FT, you ought to always assume first that it's a mistake due to ignorance--unless it's inconceivable that any human being, even a reporter for the FT, could be that ignorant.  Then you may proceed to postulate that the "error" is due to malice, deliberate or inadvertent.

  By the way, just a minor point, Jérôme:

  it ought to be "tripe" rather than "trip"--

  "But this is based on manifest error, and the FT only hurts its credibility by printing such trip - and on its front page no less."

  I almost wrote that, "There's little chance that they won't have understood your meaning--" but stopped there.  You can't afford to allow such a error--it could confuse the FT editor --though goodness knows she or he ought to be familiar with the word "tripe"; or, they could take up the habit of writing "trip" for "tripe" as a newishly trendy thing to do.  And one mustn't encourage them in that.

 ;^)

"In such an environment it is not surprising that the ills of technology should seem curable only through the application of more technology..." John W Aldridge

by proximity1 on Wed Apr 26th, 2006 at 02:25:11 PM EST
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