What Happens When You Hired A Copy Editor With ADD

Mitch Berg links to a rather blatant error on the part of the Minneapolis Red Star-Tribune found by St. Paul of Fraters Libertas. The Strib dutifuly relays the story of a 38 year-old woman who voted for Reagan twice.

Except she would have therefore been 14 in 1980… not exactly voting age.

The person being interviewed may be lying about her age (always possible), but the fact that the Strib didn’t catch this doesn’t speak well of their journalistic standards…

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