August 12th, 2013
Last week a writer named Solange Castellar misattributed a quote to me over at Bust magazine. You can read about it here.
I emailed the magazine’s editor, Debbie Stoller, to bring the error to her attention. A bunch of people tweeted it to the Bust Twitter account. Someone in the comments section of the article mentioned the mistake. And over the weekend, Bust went in and made some changes to the piece–they deleted one of the misattributions, but not the other. (There’s not indication on the piece that it has been updated.)
So clearly Bust has gotten the message that they’ve made an error. They’re just choosing not to fully rectify it.
It’s kind of frustrating. On the one hand, it’s only Bust. But on the other hand, Bust isn’t some random blogger. It’s a real magazine and the quote has me saying something I very much disagree with. And it’s the kind of thing that can easily get recycled by people looking to mischaracterize What to Expect, of which there turn out to be more than a few.
I’m open to any advice.
Update: Bust corrects the misattribution . . . and leaves the book’s title in mangled form.
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George Zimmerman.
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This comment wins the internet for today.
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You would think a magazine title like “Bust”, the magazine would be interesting. You would be wrong.
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Solange Castellar signed an internet petition saying ZERO girls should be denied an education:
http://www.change.org/users/23424167
Maybe, if the petition is successful, Ms. Castellar will be able to go to school and learn how to read.
Nedward August 13, 2013 at 1:46 am
Yes, that conduct does a grave disservice to the all the other journalists working the Feminist Demographic who are gracious, good-humored, open-minded, mostly free of bitterness/resentment, and who don’t condone such passive-aggressive immaturity. A few bad apples are harming the whole profession