Daily News has A Bunch of Bad Dates With Whitney Houston & Mariah Carey
4:29 pm, August 20th, 2009
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The New York Daily News’ Gatecrasher column once again crashed, this time in a piece on the “Battle of the Divas,” Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston.
The News devoted four paragraphs to reporting that Carey is releasing her upcoming album “Memories of an Imperfect Angel” on “Sept. 29, missing the Grammy cutoff date by just one day.” Why a day late? According to the News’ source, “Mariah’s been shafted so many times before that it’s like a big ‘Kiss my butt’ to the Grammy folks.”
Nice revenge tale . . . but the eligibility date for the Grammys was pushed up a month this year to August 31, and Carey, though an imperfect angel, wanted to work a little more to make her album a little closer to perfect.
The paper goes on to say that Whitney Houston’s album is “now set to hit shelves on Sept. 1.”
Close, but no cigar. That date is wrong, too. Houston’s release is on August 31, so that it can be in Grammy contention.
The piece also stated that Houston’s first single, ‘I Look to You,’ “received a lukewarm reception on pop radio.” Oops, the song was serviced to urban radio, and landed in the Top 10 airplay list.
What’s crazy is that it probably took Gossip Cop more time to write this piece than the News took to fact-check it.
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