Since I don’t live in Chicago anymore and can’t bring myself to read Gawker anymore, I missed John Cusack’s journalistic debut for Huffington Post Chicago. Luckily, I got the scoop from The Beachwood Reporter. Cusack, it seems, spelled the names of some athletes wrong, including some guy named Michael Jordan. As TBR put it: “John Cusack’s debut post for Huffington Post Chicago was riddled with more errors than the 2006 Cubs.” Ouch.
And yet, people say that copyediting is a dying profession. I think we need more of us. A fact-checker would’ve come in handy here too.
Also, Diane Court, one of my childhood fictional heroes because she had looked up like every word in her dictionary in Say Anything, clearly hated spelling errors. I only point this out because it is difficult to mention John Cusack but not Lloyd Dobler.
