GQ Fact Checkers Offend Journalism Vets, Sports Fans

An eagle-eyed reader has alerted us that Jim Nelson might have had his GQ staff working a little too hard to put together December's "Men of the Year" list — and not paying much attention to what's between November's covers.

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The magazine's first stutter comes in a spread on Bob Woodward, where Woodward's former Washington Post editor and Watergate scandal cohort Ben Bradlee is pictured. Except Ben Bradlee doesn't get the proper name check: the caption misspells his ID. And while we'll be the first to own up to our gratuitous errors, the mispelling gives Ben the name Ed Bradlee, a mixup of oversight and unfortunate timing.

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Next up is the blurb on Joe Namath. As any casual sports fan knows, Joe shaved off his famous Fu Manchu moustache for $15,000 in a commercial for Remington electric shavers. GQ, meanwhile, calls it a handlebar moustache.

At least GQ saved its ass by naming Leo DiCaprio one of its Men of the Year. You know, because he's done so much this year to be proud of. Namely, banging a Israeli model.

Nov 16, 2006 · posted by David Hauslaib, Jossip · Link · Respond
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