The December 19th issue of The New Yorker—that supposed bastion of journalistic meticulousness—managed to squeeze three errors about MMA, plus a few half-truths, into a single sentence. The offending sentence, quoted below, calls the sport “ultimate-fighting,” claims it has “no rules” and spells Fedor’s name in a way that even Google can’t recognize. And it […]
The New Yorker Is Clueless About MMA, and That’s Okay
The December 19th issue of The New Yorker—that supposed bastion of journalistic meticulousness—managed to squeeze three errors about MMA, plus a few half-truths, into a single sentence. The offending sentence, quoted below, calls the sport …