To cx the quote or not cx the quote, that is the question

SportsJournalists.com has had threads recently about correcting/cleaning up a quote and about mistakes. Here's a hybrid post.

The Dallas Morning News Friday had a two-minute drill segment with center Andre Gurode, who recently filmed a Wendy's commercial. Here's part of it:

Q: Did you take any drama classes or participate in any school plays growing up?

A: I did take Shakespeare for Non-Majors. We did A Midnight Summer's Dream.

Emphasis added. Did Gurode mis speak? Was the title of the play really "A Midnight Summer's Dream" because it was in a class called Shakespeare for Non-Majors? How should this have been handled?

As an aside, a week or so ago, the DMN had an item about Earl Campbell visting training camp and talking with Cowboys coach Wade Phillips. The item mentioned that Campbell was a 1977 Heisman winner coached by Phillips' dad Bum. Who knew Bum Phillips coached the Longhorns?

 

A Midnight Summer's Dream is a play. He most likely didn't misspeak, voiding your claim.

 

I wouldn't be so sure.

The more popular of the two is "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and not "A Midnight Summer's Dream" (which hardly makes sense as a title).

Through google, only one instance of a play version of "A Midnight Summer's Dream" came up (and it was a parody).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night's_Dream
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream_%28disambiguation%29

 

I would have asked the guy if he means A Midsummer Night's Dream, and if he said yes, I would have quoted him using the correct title. Otherwise I would have written "A Midnight's Summer Dream (sic)"

The sentence about Earl Campbell being coached by Bum Phillips was unclear, but not incorrect. Campbell was a Heisman winner and he was coached by Bum, just not in the same year.

 

The way it was written, it made it sound like Bum coached Earl at Texas. I didn't reproduce it word for word, sorry. The paper did run a correction/clarification.