An article in the metro section of today's New York Times reports on the effect of the September 11 attack on a party-planning business. The Times reports, "During the next week, they had Gourmet magazine's 16th-anniversary party at the Whitney Museum."
As Gourmet's readers know, the anniversary the magazine is celebrating this year is its 60th, not its 16th. You don't even have to be a Gourmet reader to realize this. It would be unusually extravagant to rent out the Whitney Museum for a 16th anniversary party for a magazine -- strange enough to make an editor with even a below-average store of skepticism ask a reporter, "are you sure that's right?"