In a staff editorial, the Chronicle‘s editorial LiveJournalists apparently got so excited about former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s warnings about the coming American dictatorship that they wrote the following:
O’Connor then singled out by deed, though not by name, two Texas politicians for their verbal attacks upon the court for doing its job. Last year, criticizing federal and state court rulings that allowed Terry Schiavo’s vegetative state to end in death, then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said, “The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior.”
Who is Terry Schiavo?
Do they mean the late Terri Schiavo?
That wasn’t the only bungled reference to Schiavo in recent Chronicle editions. The news section managed to “edit” a reprint of an article by the Washington Post‘s Charles Lane to introduce the same error Friday. Lane’s column in yesterday’s Post ran just over 800 words, and included the following reference (roughly one-third of the way through):
Some conservatives are still fuming over the federal courts’ refusal to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case last year.
The Chronicle chopped Lane’s column to roughly 260 words, and the Chron.com version concluded as follows:
Some conservatives are still fuming over the federal courts’ refusal to intervene in the Terry Schiavo case last year.
That’s just really poorly done.
