A GREAT MOMENT IN JOURNALISM - AT 7:46 A.M. ET:  Andrew Malcolm's Top of the Ticket blog at the Los Angeles Times alerts us to an act of maturity, responsibility, and journalistic due diligence at that paper.  All praise:

Here is an actual correction from Page A4 of today's print edition:

FOR THE RECORD:

TV listings: The Prime-Time TV grid in Thursday's Calendar section mistakenly listed MTV's "Jackass" show on the MSNBC cable schedule at 7 and 10 p.m. where instead MSNBC's "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" should have been listed.

It's not the Worst Mistake in the World.

But without this kind of correction, online too, a few thousand people might have tuned into MSNBC, the Obama administration's favorite cable channel, expecting to see a "Jackass" show and instead they'd have found Keith Olbermann.

Worse, what if nobody noticed the difference?

COMMENT:  No difference to notice.

August 21, 2009