Oct. 13 at At AP: Lech Walesa, ‘Legendary Freedom Leader’; Now: 'L

Tom Blumer
October 23rd, 2011 2:15 PM
On October 13, Monika Scislowska of the Associated Press reported that a "legendary freedom leader ... says he supports the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York that protests corporate greed," and that "that he is planning either a visit or a letter to the protesters." That leader would be Poland's former President Lech Walesa. On Friday, October 21, at 5:01 p.m., Adam Andrzejewski at…
 

A Revealing AP Slip? A Strange Stray Question Mark Appears in Report o

Tom Blumer
August 29th, 2010 10:24 AM
An interesting character made an appearance in a Saturday evening Associated Press report by Cristian Salazar on Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf: It's not a one-time accident. The same paragraph carried at Google's version of the story has the same extra character: The question mark is actually well-placed, as the following paragraphs from Salazar's report demonstrate (bolds are mine throughout this…