Thursday, March 30

Louie B. Mayor ???

or, How the Standards are Falling at the NYT

The strip ad across the top of the Times' news pages is celebrating a series of American film directors in a Netflix ad.  I scrolled over the John Ford one, having read Scott Eyman's excellent biography (as well as his books about Mary Pickford, Ernst Lubitsch and ... Louie B. Mayer.)

It just jumps out at you, when they spell such a prominent name wrong.

Wonders what other facts they are not catching... despite all the eyeballs paid to check these things before they make it into print, online.  Too busy making the ads wiggle and jump to get the facts correct, I guess...