The name Carl Bernstein is drilled into the heads of journalism students in J-schools across the country. He's the Pulitzer Prize winner who uncovered the Watergate scandal with Bob Woodward at
The Washington Post. He is a journalism deity. He is also a man. Named Carl. Somehow, however, on Sunday
The Miami Herald accidentally misspelled his byline as Carol Bernstein. He did not recently decide to switch genders.
Bernstein and Woodward reunited to
write a retrospective on Watergate's 40th anniversary for The Post.
The Herald re-ran this on Sunday. According to Romenesko, it carried this byline in print.
Then came
this online correction:
Ha. Ha. Ha. We apologize to anyone who does not care about journalism things and/or irony.
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