A correction for the ages.(on New York Times Article on alleged sex workers)(Brief article) From: American Journalism Review | Date: June 1, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 University of Maryland. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

An article on March 16 profiling three sex workers in the wake of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's resignation after revelations that he patronized prostitutes misconstrued how two of the women, identified by the pseudonyms Faith O'Donnell and Sally Anderson, said they earned a living. The resulting misrepresentation of the two women's work included a headline that referred to them as 'high-priced call girls' and a paragraph that said they practiced 'the 21st-century version of the oldest prof...