Correction and Clarification

I want to correct an attribution I gave in regard to a post I made recently (view it here).

I received the anonymous post regarding Clay Aiken under the Shafer Choral Concert and created a new post (the one I have linked to above) as it was a different topic. In making the post I attributed the comment to JD Malone whose name, as can be seen (the original comment is below) was at the bottom. At times people comment anonymously but then tag there name so they don't have to actually log-in. I thought this is what had happened and made the assumption (yes I know the saying) and was wrong. The person making the comment had intended only to note who wrote the material.

Later when I saw that JD Malone was the Express-Times reporter who covered the event, I assumed it was an attribution to him and not a contribution by him. This morning I sent JD a note and wanted to clarify what had happened. He kindly replied and understood what had happened.

In the future, if you are posting, please note up front if you are grabbing copy and if you can't get the link inserted at least give us the name of the source ie "JD Malone of the Express-Times wrote..."

If you want to add links the mark-up is not too difficult:

View the article here

Where "..." is where you insert the rest of the web address.

Again my thanks to the reader who got the information up here so soon, and my apologies to JD for not properly crediting his story and misidentifying him as the anonymous poster.

Ross

1 Comments:

At 3:11 PM, Anonymous said…

“American Idol” star helps Nazareth students celebrate book’s publication
Clay Aiken made a surprise appearance this morning at Nazareth Area High School for an assembly celebrating the book “Our Friend Mikayla,” published earlier this year by the Bubel-Aiken Foundation.
Aiken read the book to the entire Lower Nazareth Elementary School gathered in the high school’s auditorium. He also gave signed copies to the 19 authors/illustrators, now in fifth grade.
The students wrote the book in third grade about their classmate Mikayla Resh. Mikayla was born brain damaged and has severely impaired vision and hearing. Profound cerebral palsy confines her to a wheelchair, her mother, Kimberly Resh, said earlier this year.
In the book, the kids write about their experiences with Mikayla and things they learned from her.
After posing for pictures and speaking to the authors, Aiken then arranged for limousines to pick up the students and transport them in style back to the school in time for lunch. The buses they came in that morning had already left with the rest of the students aboard.
One of the authors, Michael Allen, just about burst when he heard the news.
“Oh my God! Thank you! Is this a dream?” Allen said. “A limo is the best. It is like the first time I’ll be in a limo. It is so awesome.”
“Limos are for classy people,” Aiken said. “You are classy people.”
-- JD Malone