TRAFFIC WARS CONT’D: Andrew Sullivan is still after TAPPED. But this remark is a bit harsh: “The Kuttner claim that they had 500,000 subscribers to their magazine has been reduced to 50,000. This discrepancy has been blamed on a reporter for the Boston Business Journal.”

Actually, I got an email from the reporter myself, but didn’t get around to posting it before TAPPED posted its own item. But she made clear to me that the error was hers (and proved it by including a similar typo in her email!). I think that TAP is blameless in this.

Here’s the email I got (with the typo corrected — she had originally swapped the 80 / 800,000 numbers):

From: Donna Goodison

Date: 2002/06/17 Mon AM 10:24:07 EDT

Subject: kaus-american prospect

there were two typos (mistakes) in my boston business journal media column that are the basis for andrew sullivan’s and mickey kaus’ most recent attacks on the american prospect.

your web site picked up the andrew sullivan reference, so i thought you should know that the 500,000 number in my article should be 50,000, and the 800,000 number should be 80,000. kuttner gave me the correct lower numbers, and i made the mistake.

the links to our web site now have the corrected numbers, and we’re attempting to put a correction notice at the top of the story saying as much.

donna goodison

boston business journal

She has one thing in common with Andrew Sullivan — that all-lowercase-typing thing.