Typo of the Week

his blog post originally stated that one in three black men who have sex with me is HIV positive. In fact, the statistic applies to black men who have sex with men.

“This blog post originally stated that one in three black men who have sex with me is HIV positive. In fact, the statistic applies to black men who have sex with men.” – Amanda Hess, correcting a typo in the lede paragraph of her story, “HIV-positive black gay men to get the Bayard Rustin Project, a District campaign against AIDS.”

What a difference a letter makes.

via Radley Balko and others

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Comments

  1. tom p says:

    typo of the decade you mean….