That’s not a mistake: It’s malfeasance
I always teach my kids the diff between an accident and negligence. When they break something and say, oh, it was an accident, I say, well, accidents happen, but negligence is avoidable.
But then there is a whole nuther category: malfeasance. It’s not a mistake when you meant to do it and got caught. Whatever the New York Times might think:
The liberal advocacy group should have paid $142,000 for the ad calling the U.S. commander in Iraq “General Betray Us,” not $65,000, the paper’s public editor wrote yesterday.
Clark Hoyt said in his column that MoveOn was not entitled to the cheaper “standby” rate for advertising that can run any time over the following week because the Times did promise that the ad would run Sept. 10, the day Petraeus began his congressional testimony. “We made a mistake,” Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis was quoted as saying.
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