Saturday, February 09, 2013

TRUMAN DEFEATS DEWEY...

...and, moving on to more timely news, you won't be enjoying free government-provided wireless Internet access over airwaves near you anytime soon-despite this Washington Post story by Cecilia Kang which seems to raise the possibility that you will.

Anyway, thanks to Forbes contributor Anthony WIng Kosner and especially Jon Brodkin over at Ars Technica for setting the record straight.  (And Jon, I loved your use of the famous photo I alluded to in this post's title.)

Oh, for the days when journalists were good enough writers to simply make stories up out of whole cloth and try to get away with that rather than fumble facts and then stumble over half-hearted non-corrections.  Does the name Janet Cooke ring a bell?