Adele Ferguson: News mishaps on primary trail

IT’S NICE to see that even the uppity Seattle Times can pull a Dewey.

Or did you miss the headline in the Feb. 2 edition “Gingrich to get nod from Trump.”

True, the story did say a couple of inches down after Donald Trump will announce his support of Gingrich on Thursday in Las Vegas, “according to a senior campaign official.”

A wiser head in the newspaper business would have had a question mark in the headline. The Times obviously bought the endorsement since it also wrote “That nod may mitigate the early impression of disarray in the Gingrich campaign in Nevada, evident as he hit the ground...