New York Times May 24 front page

[Alma]

Did you break your hip hiking up your leg to shirt on a pretty poignant journalistic effort?

Nice.

 

[Alma]

It won Twitter and parts of Facebook. It's a nice keepsake.

Perhaps the word "incalculable" is meant ironically which, to say, when you're trying to be grave, you shouldn't use. So some other word there would have been good.

 

[Fredrick]

Except one of the names is actually a murder victim, and another has an incorrect hometown -- which calls the accuracy of the entire project into question.

Also, the online version lists all the local papers from whose features The Times cribbed... but those aren't named accurately. There are quite a few given a "The" where it doesn't belong. (That seemed to be the default!) I'm hoping all the links are correct, but I also noticed they just go to the homepage -- not the individual memorial story.

If there are mistakes in there, INEXCUSABLE! Oh wait, excusable. They probably have one copy editor working on the weekend. You get what you pay for. No holiday weekend overtime probably led to screwups.

 

[cjericho]

If there are mistakes in there, INEXCUSABLE! Oh wait, excusable. They probably have one copy editor working on the weekend. You get what you pay for. No holiday weekend overtime probably led to screwups.

Were the suits working?

 

[gingerbread]

I don't know how you can read these and not be moved.
"Hailey Herrera, 25, budding therapist w/a gift for empathy ... Georgianna Glose, 73, renegade nun who ran a non profit anchor ..."

Also, as a friend of mine posted, it's reminiscent of this from the the Chicago Tribune's front page on Dec. 31, 1903, the day after the Iroquois Theater fire.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Except one of the names is actually a murder victim, and another has an incorrect hometown -- which calls the accuracy of the entire project into question.

Also, the online version lists all the local papers from whose features The Times cribbed... but those aren't named accurately. There are quite a few given a "The" where it doesn't belong. (That seemed to be the default!) I'm hoping all the links are correct, but I also noticed they just go to the homepage -- not the individual memorial story.

Except that someone has mentioned that the correction was made.

As Twirling Time noted, a lot of effort to tear down an obvious effort at an exceptional effort of journalism. Trying THAT hard to reside in Bitterville?

 

[Sports Barf]

Typical Gannett. How many of those people listed as dead would have been laid off or forced to work 70 get paid 40 if they stayed alive?

oh sorry this is Fredrick's burner account again

 

[Monday Morning Sportswriter]

 

[Vombatus]

That's quite a few errors for compilers.

 

[britwrit]

There's also precedent for screw-ups even on a bigger scale. Like some of the names on the Vietnam Wall memorial are misspelled ("scores" says the internet.) 25 people who survived the war are listed as dead.

 

[MileHigh]

Could have done without the self-slurping of how it came together.

The Project Behind a Front Page Full of Names

 

[PaperDoll]

Since so much effort went into the web version, it would've been appreciated to have links back to the each individual story. I didn't write any of them, but I know quite a few people who did.

If The New York Times was trying to shine a light on individual people from individual communities, why not take that next step and support the individual local publications and journalists who made their project possible.

I guess the question is whether seeing a block of text on the front page is moving, or reading the stories of each individual who died from complications of COVID-19. To me, it's the latter.