Minor detail

On Friday, The Wisconsin State Journal ran an article on “We Gotta Get Out of This Place,” a book currently being penned by University of Wisconsin Professor Craig Werner and Doug Bradley. At one point, the piece notes:

"Music becomes most important in stressful times and the most stressful period of my life was when I was in Vietnam," said Bradley, who is now director of communications for the UW System. He served in Long Binh, Vietnam, in 1970 and 1971 as an information specialist.

It’s an interesting project and an interesting article – The Badger Herald ran a similar piece back in February.

The problem, however, is that the State Journal is wrong. The Madison daily paper’s Friday edition marked the end of a week during the course of which Mr. Bradley had tendered his resignation as part of a major shake-up in the UW System offices.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported the story two days earlier and I even blogged on it here.

I realize that most entertainment articles are scribed well in advance and considered “perennial” in newsrooms because they lack time value. And it is worth noting that this factoid has no bearing on Mr. Bradley's involvement with the book. But it still seems like the sort of thing the State Journal should have caught.