If you haven't heard by now (see here for a thorough rehashing), Mitch Albom of the Detroit Free Press had a little oopsie a few weeks ago - when writing a column on a Friday, to be published on a Sunday, Albom wrote about events on the intervening Saturday as if they had already happened. Unfortunately, two Michigan State players featured in Albom's column did not show up at the MSU-UNC game as they had planned.
Albom apologized, saying "while it was hardly the thrust of the article...it was wrong just the same." Hmmm. I read the article, and Albom spent the first three paragraphs talking about the two players - what they were wearing, how they got there, what they were feeling, etc., etc. He also concluded by using the phrase "you looked around the stands Saturday" - rather difficult, since it was Friday when the column was written.
Let's hope the editors worship their idols a little less and actually do their jobs a little, no, make that a lot, more.
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