A Small Bucket List Achievement Courtesy of the New York Times

 Perhaps consistent with my academic and applied search for the truth, I have made it a mission to report errors appearing in the New York Times and other media.  Heretofore, no acknowledgement even for significant mistakes. 

 For example, the Times used the inter-bank currency exchange rate in Travel section estimates of costs abroad.  I tried mightily to suggest that just about every reader of the paper would never qualify for the preferred bank rate.  For years the Times significantly overestimated the U.S. dollar value in foreign transactions.

While never acknowledging this multi-year blunder, the Times simply provides a cost estimate in the local currency.

Today, I finally got an acknowledgement from the Times on a simple mistake: reporting that a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. is located east of the city. Of course, Vienna, VA is located westward:          

 

Here’s what a received from a Times Standards Assistant:

In these retirement days, I accept diminution and invisibility, so even small potatoes trump humble pie.