Marianne Love hates journalism mistakes – so much so that she equates the feeling she gets from them to running over a dog. Which she has also done. In fact, the Slight Detour blogger had a sign tacked to the board above the light table when she advised the award-winning Cedar Post student newspaper at Sandpoint High, reading: “Do It Right.” Marianne was haunted by those words recently when she realized she’d snapped a photo of the wrong house to illustrate a Sandpoint Magazine article about Sarah Palin. The house on North Fourth where the Alaska governor spent her first three months of life is next to the one submitted to the mag. I’ve made some doozy errors, too – like the time I wrote a feature on a local city clerk and used a wrong surname. And the time I described an ex-First Lady as “the late Lady Bird Johnson” when she was very much alive. And the time I referred to ex-WSU QB Ryan Leaf as “Bryan” in an editorial. Luckily, such snafus are forgotten. But Marianne’s wrong-house photo has longer shelf life. You see, the winter edition of Sandpoint Magazine will circulate six months – and serves as a historical chronicle of sorts. Laments Marianne in her Slight Detour blog: “I screwed up on history.” To apologize, she took a jar of apple jelly to the man who lives in the wrong house. Who greeted her news with a big smile and this: “I’ll have a story to tell every time I serve this jelly.” Nearly Nekkid At UI
