Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:20:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Spy plane crash?

Nicki Lynch asked:

> If reporters can't get it right, how could something be confirmed?
> Who DO you trust?

I had that problem at work today.  A person mentioned many times in
a set of depositions I'm proofreading had a very strange name.  The
court reporter had written it one way.  Google showed that most --
but not all -- news stories about the case had written it two other
ways, some with a hyphen, some without.

It's as if the court reporter had written Nielsenhayden, and news
reporters were about evenly split between Nielsen-Hayden and
Nielsen Hayden, with a handful holding out for Nielsenhayden.
The hyphens had a slight plurality.

We're not supposed to contact any of the people involved.

The person in question is dead, but for some reason does not show up
under any of these names in the online Social Security Death Index.

What would you do?