Riehl World View: NY Times Alters Letterman Monologue Text?

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

NY Times Alters Letterman Monologue Text?

Update: The NY Times responds via a comment on their item. Fine. But it's still a fail. They should routinely be including a disclaimer with this stuff, as opposed to specifically claiming "aired." That would meet a professional standard. As is, it doesn't. Poor standards and procedures from the Times? Who would have guessed?

From the editors: The transcript we received omitted the joke referred to in the comment below, presumably for reasons of taste. Had it included the joke, we would not have run it. Monologue jokes are routinely edited for taste and sometimes brevity.

No way. From Glenn to here to here to here to here. Altered, or do they usually just publish some released crap and not the actual transcript, as is claimed? Way to go, NY Times. What a joke.

Monologue | Aired Monday night on CBS: You know who was in town this weekend, went to a Yankee game? Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska. And she was up there with Rudy Giuliani. They were sitting together. And their seats were, well, let me tell you where their seats were. They were way, way in far right field. They were so far right. Crazy.

Sarah Palin got there early and she was taken to her seat, shown to her seat, by Joe the Usher.

While she was at the Yankee game, Sarah Palin managed to spend $150,000 on hats and t-shirts.

But Sarah Palin — it was exciting, because everybody loves New York City and she spent the entire weekend here in New York City. And late yesterday afternoon, as a matter of fact, she actually pulled out her rifle, and she shot that thing on Donald Trump’s head. Tremendous weekend.

Big night for Angela Lansbury. She won a record fifth Tony Award. And she was named acting president of General Motors. Did you know that?

Dan on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 09:33 AM in Sarah Palin | Permalink