Anyone catch the NY papers Joe Strummer debacle???

[azal]

so the NY Times ran an article on the death of Joe Strummer and printed a picture of Mick Jones.....

then the NY Post wrote an article to point out the Time's mistake and ran a picture of Mick Jones...the singer of Foreigner.....



ah my future contemporaries.....I'm so glad that one day I will be associated with these responsible and knowledgable journalists.

 

[avi]

AMAZING.

 

[VangelicSurgeon]

AAAAAAAAAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

 

[xfer]

bwahaha! Journalism worthy of the Metro.

Here, I went hunting upon reading this thread:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2076352/

(the NYTimes article also misspells Paul Simonon's name)

 

[xfer]

Wow, the Clash's Mick Jones ought to be pissed, too, after being identified as:

 

[Demonspell]

Didn't see that, but I read a tabloid-style blurb in the Post (redundant, I know...) about Courtney Love allegedly jumping into his coffin!

 

[azal]

Originally posted by xfer
Wow, the Clash's Mick Jones ought to be pissed, too, after being identified as:

this is so troo....and in fact the most tragic aspect of this clusterfuck.

 

[Pseudonym]

Yeah I caught that the other nite. I nearly spit my coffee out in shock/laughter (I don't remember which came first)