… is featured in Politico today.
… The 19-year-old sophomore at George Washington University has become the Washington press corps’ independent fact checker, copy editor and link distributor extraordinaire. His e-mails almost always lead off with a soupçon of praise, such as “In your excellent article today,” followed by a link to the story and polite notification of a mistake, anything from a broken hyperlink to a misspelled name. He offers the correction — “It’s ‘Haass,’ not ‘Haas,’” he wrote in regard to the president of the Council on Foreign Relations — and often a link as proof. He signs off coolly: “Best, Daniel.”
… On an average day, Lippman says he’ll read about 80 articles in just a couple of hours — which seems like a conservative estimate. He’s quick to note that he does not let this interfere with his studies. To that end, he decided not to bring his laptop to his classes this year, as it was becoming a distraction.
His connections to professional journalists began a couple of years ago, when he started firing off e-mails with corrections to The New York Times. For a while, Lippman kept tabs on his successes by bookmarking them on his computer.
“I like accuracy a lot,” he says…
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Not bringing your laptop to class, eh?
A distraction, eh?
December 14th, 2009 at 4:45PM
Sounds like an interesting young man. And a living testament to the sloppiness and carelessness of journalists and journalism these days.
"I like accuracy a lot…" I love it!