Chronicle breaks out the airbrush

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The Chronicle ran a story with the following headline earlier today:

Testaverde keeps his job as starter

I read the article with some interest earlier, because I knew for a fact the headline was misleading. Bill Parcells announced yesterday that he wasn’t ready to name a starter, that it would be Testaverde if he could go, but that his recovery from injury seemed doubtful.

Today, Parcells actually said that Drew Henson most likely would start.

Interestingly, after today’s announcement from Parcells, the Chronicle posted the related AP article to its website, and deleted the old, erroneous article altogether (link via Google News).

It’s strange that the Chronicle deleted the article from the website, because it appeared in print editions of the newspaper with the same erroneous headline as above. But then again, it’s a newspaper that regularly engages in strange practices with regard to web archiving.

(11-24-2004 Update) Respected NFL beat writer John McClain writes more in today’s Chronicle:

Parcells never will admit it, of course, but you just know that he knew Monday exactly who was going to start against Chicago.

Sure, any Cowboys fan knew that. But McClain’s newspaper reported the wrong guy.

And then took down the story.


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