“On the Media”
That tidbit was in AP’s Walter Cronkite obit, but Ben Zimmer discovered that it isn’t true. “I think that this is a classic example of an anecdote that’s simply too good to check,” he tells Bob Garfield. || More transcripts and audio from the latest “OTM.”
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