Will The Real Mike Leach Please Stand Up? NY Times Confuses Biden’s Diversity Officer

[mountaineer]

All the inaccuracy that's fit to print.

Will The Real Mike Leach Please Stand Up? NY Times Confuses Biden’s Diversity Officer
 by Sam Amico
 about 19 hours ago, updated about 18 hours ago   
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Mississippi State coach Mike Leach will serve as incoming President Joe Biden’s chief diversity and inclusion director, according to the New York Times. Except that he actually won’t.

Instead, the Times made a blunder by citing the wrong Leach in a report about Biden’s upcoming transition to the White House. Now, this does get a little confusing. Michael Leach is the new chief diversity and inclusion officer, and he is a former Bears assistant. But he was never the head coach at Texas Tech, as the Times stated.  ...

The Times later issued a correction. “An earlier version of this article inaccurately said that Mr. Leach also coached Texas Tech football, but that coach was a different man with the same name,” it read.

Yeah, different man entirely. Both have the same first and last name. Both Leaches spent timed time as football coaches. But they are two different men. The only question left is whether Biden actually picked the right one.

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[dfwgator]

Also the Mike Leach has been an outspoken Trump supporter.

[mountaineer]

Isn't that typical of the NYT (and the rest of the leftist news media, for that matter)? Michael Leach is a common enough name, and they don't even bother to verify which Michael Leach it may have been. Verifying facts before publishing them is too old school, I guess.

 It's funny that this story was written by Sam Amico, with whom I briefly worked at a small city newspaper (he was in sports, I was in news, so we never interacted) - the newspaper where the commandment to publish only verified facts was drummed into us. Writers who didn't comply didn't last very long.