The New York Times issued an amusing correction Saturday on a column about reality TV star Kim Kardashian’s rear end.
Humorist Joyce Wadler apparently lifted fake quotes that the satirical website The Daily Currant attributed to Kardashian’s husband, rapper Kanye West, for a column titled “Fear of Kim Kardashian’s Derrière.”
Wadler lamented in her column that “this big-butt thing” — a trend that hit its apex with the reality star’s instantly infamous Paper Magazine winter cover — may take off among “impressionable women.”
Here’s the correction:
An earlier version of this column was published in error. That version included what purported to be an interview that Kanye West gave to a Chicago radio station in which he compared his own derrière to that of his wife, Kim Kardashian. Mr. West’s quotes were taken, without attribution, from the satirical website The Daily Currant. There is no radio station WGYN in Chicago; the interview was fictitious, and should not have been included in the column.
And here are the lifted, fake quotes that originally appeared in Wadler’s column, via Poynter:
“I don’t understand why everyone is focusing on Kim’s booty,” Kanye said in an interview on Chicago rap station WGYN, adding that he certainly loves it. “That’s why I married her,” he said. But, Kanye added, nobody has a rear end like his own.
“My booty is like Michelangelo level, you feel me?” Kanye said. “It’s like a sculpture. It’s like something that should be sitting in a museum for thousands of thousands of years.”
His wife’s behind? It was nice, Kanye said, “But it’s not at that level.”
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I saw this article in the NY Times and was fucking enraged. It’s not the fucking Post. The article was not cheeky, even if this TPM blurb makes it sound like the correction was. It was presented as if it were a real story, as if this were really news they felt was within their bailiwick. If this is what they’re doing to boost sales, I’ll be cancelling my subscription very soon. The overall quality has been in decline for some time now anyways.
Sincerely, Grumpy Old Man
Could we stop labeling sites like “The Daily Currant” as “satirical”? They don’t rise to that level.
I cannot lie, you know the article is a complete fraud when they talk about big butts and don’t even reference Sir Mix-A-Lot. oh how the “mighty” have fallen, NYT!
IMHO her ass is big enough to hold all five new york city
boroughs. Who in the hell would find her or any of her vapid,
no talent bimbo siblings anything but a freak show that P.T.
Barnum would be proud of?