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You Don't Say
The world turned upside down
March 11, 2010, 8:50 am


The Grammarphobia Blog: Grammar, Usage, Etymology, and More
Passing the buck
March 11, 2010, 6:10 am
Q: What is the origin of "pass the buck"� and Harry Truman's riff on it, "the buck stops here"�? A: This buck-passing and buck-stopping business can be traced back to the poker tables of the 19th century.

Regret the Error
Apology
March 11, 2010, 6:00 am
ON JUNE 28, 2006, The Advertiser published an article in which it was asserted Trish Draper had attended a meeting with Channel Ten executives in Canberra and threatened and pressured Channel Ten to drop Big Brother – Adults Only or their case for media law changes would be damaged by the [.

Regret the Error
A pseudo-apology from the Sun (U.K.)
March 11, 2010, 6:00 am
THE SUN today unreservedly apologises to Nicklas Bendtner after his stunning treble sent the Gunners storming into the Champions League quarter-finals. Yesterday we may have inadvertently given the impression that Bendtner could not hit a cow’s Arsenal with a banjo.

CJR
Audit Notes: FT "News," Overdrafts Over at BofA, No Marketwatchdog
March 10, 2010, 8:31 pm
By Ryan Chittum There they go again. The Financial Times has a scoop so big it thought it decided we media types couldn't wait to read it in the paper or online—we needed a flash email. So what's the "exclusive" headline? Pandit sees revival of Citi's fortunes You mean Vikram Pandit, Citi CEO, sees a revival of his company's fortunes? Stop.

CJR
Audit D.C. Notes: WSJ Good on Wall Street Muni Fees; Newsweek on Design, Bloomberg Goes Contrarian on Obama, Etc.
March 10, 2010, 1:54 pm
By Holly Yeager The Wall Street Journal digs into Build America Bonds, enacted as part of last year's stimulus plan "to create jobs building roads, schools and hospitals."� Turns out the underwriters who pitch these muni bonds aren't exactly giving away their services to help the team.

CJR
Cranston Attorney Now a Journal Star
March 10, 2010, 1:30 pm
By Ryan Chittum It's probably a bad sign if you're a Rhode Island lawyer who's the subject of two page-one Wall Street Journal articles in three weeks. And so it is here. The paper got a two-fer on Joseph Caramadre, who makes money taking advantage of loopholes with dying people.

You Don't Say
It's good to be the king
March 10, 2010, 8:47 am


CJR
Times Peeks Inside CFPA Dealmaking
March 10, 2010, 8:46 am
By Ryan Chittum The New York Times has a great scoop on the making of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency bill sausage. No surprise: It's indigestion-inducing. The paper reports that Senator Bob Corker, the Republican who's proposing to neuter the agency by sticking it inside the Federal Reserve, is also doing a huge favor to his home-state cronies in the.

The Grammarphobia Blog: Grammar, Usage, Etymology, and More
Hic transit gloria
March 10, 2010, 6:10 am
Q: Why did "hiccup"� become "hiccough"� even though the two words are pronounced the same? A: When the word first appeared in English in the 16th century, it was written every which way—"hicket,"� "hickot,"� "hickop,"� "hikup,"� and so on—all onomatopoeic spellings of the sound itself.