"Countdown With Keith Olbermann" = "Jackass"

Some would call it a glaring error. Others might say it fits given Olbermann's level of journalism. I will just say that it is rather comical.



http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/08/keith-olbermann-jackass-mixup.html



"Thank goodness The Times is the forthright, ethical institution that it is. And when a mistake happens, the newspaper rushes to set the journalistic record straight with an honest repair.



Here is an actual correction from Page A4 of today's print edition:



FOR THE RECORD TV listings: The Prime-Time TV grid in Thursday's Calendar section mistakenly listed MTV's "Jackass" show on the MSNBC cable schedule at 7 and 10 p.m. where instead MSNBC's "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" should have been listed.



It's not the Worst Mistake in the World.



But without this kind of correction, online too, a few thousand people might have tuned into MSNBC, the Obama administration's favorite cable channel, expecting to see a "Jackass" show, and instead they'd have found Olbermann.



Worse, what if nobody noticed the difference?



(UPDATE 11:24 p.m.: It was only the bronze worse person of the day, but nearly half of Keith Olbermann's Friday night audience rushed to notify us on Twitter that in honor of this tiny little Ticket item the recovering sports announcer had declared us one of the day's three worst people in the world."