Gee, that professional media. Their multiple layers of fact-checkers and editors are so much better than us lowly bloggers, who only have ourselves to fact-check our asses.
For instance, there’s the AP, which has this to say in the Nicole Kidman/Keith Urban wedding story:
Media have predicted that “Moulin Rouge” director Baz Luhrmann would have a hand in the wedding video. A quartet from the Sydney Symphony Orchestra was expected to perform, as is Jackman, who sprang to fame in the Broadway musical “The Boy from Oz” before striking success in Hollywood as Wolverine in the “X-Men” series.
That’s pretty interesting, because X-Men came out in 2000, and “The Boy From Oz” hit Broadway in 2003. One might say it was Jackman’s fame as Wolverine that got him noticed enough by Hollywood and others to have got him the role in “The Boy From Oz.”
One might also say that the AP writer is dead wrong, the fact-checker missed it, and the editors didn’t catch it, either.
Woo-hoo for the multiple editing layers of the mainstream media!
Jackman was a bloody good Curly in Oklahoma! though I’m not sure that production ever went to Broadway. Perhaps that’s what the AP writer meant?
I doubt it. Bad research, or no research, and bad or no fact-checking, is responsible for the error. It’s especially stupid because it’s so easy to get information on celebrities these days. IMDB and Google are a reporter’s best friends.
I found the error because I knew that Jackman hosted the Tonys a year or so ago, that he was in “The Boy From Oz” then, and that I had already fallen head-over-heels for him in X-Men, which was out years before the above.
There’s really no excuse for such shoddy workmanship from supposed professionals.