Glory Oys? Oops: NY Times correction of ‘Bruce Springstein’ sparks hilarity; Update: #BruceSpringsteinSongs

Posted at 12:10 pm on November 08, 2012 by Lori Ziganto

No, for real. The New York Times wrote an article in which they referred to singer Bruce Springsteen and “Bruce Springstein.”

MT @JeffreyGoldberg NYTimes: "….misspelled the singer’s surname…He is Bruce Springsteen, not Springstein." http://t.co/VHsQpp1n

— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) November 8, 2012

Worse, they did it a number of times. A screenshot from the updated The New York Times article:

Perhaps the New York Times writer was just so horrified by Springsteen’s creepy ode to Obama that he invented a new singer?

Hilarity, of course, swiftly ensued.

Oy RT @JeffreyGoldberg: NYT "An earlier version of this article misspelled the singer’s surname. He is Bruce Springsteen, not Springstein."

— Chris Moody (@moody) November 8, 2012

amazing MT @JeffreyGoldberg: NYTimes correction: An earlier version of this article misspelled the surname…. Springsteen, not Springstein.

— Alex Callahan (@AlexCallahan) November 8, 2012

@JeffreyGoldberg #LesserKnownJews

— William D. Adler (@williamadler78) November 8, 2012

Man, how amazing would Bruce Springstein be? (See last RT)

— Michael (@frizz) November 8, 2012

https://twitter.com/HoagieHaus/status/266580240292270080

I'm pretty sure Bruce Springstein was my dentist when I was a kid. http://t.co/LSs2INvx

— Chris Heller (@c_heller) November 8, 2012

@JeffreyGoldberg NYTimes: An earlier version of this article misspelled mad scientists surname. He is Dr. FrankenSHTEEN, not FrankenSTINE.

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) November 8, 2012

@Chris_Moody @JeffreyGoldberg Saw Springstein in the Catskills last summer. Amazing. 3hr show, 5-8pm. Buffet merely adequate.

— Don Wood (@thatdonwood) November 8, 2012

@JeffreyGoldberg I've seen that same mistake occur alot recently. #Borntoschlep.

— Glasp Hands (@Shiny_Beast) November 8, 2012

@DylanByers Some guy in South Williamsburg named Bruce Springstein is shaking his fist in the air as we speak.

— Will Levith (@Mediawill) November 8, 2012

@JeffreyGoldberg – someone should set up an @springstein account.

— John A Gans Jr (@johngansjr) November 8, 2012

Heh. More, please.

Update: And, the hilarity continues. Now with more hashtag. Enter: #BruceSpringsteinSongs

Born in the U.S.A. (But I Have Dual Loyalties) #BruceSpringsteinSongs

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) November 8, 2012

#BruceSpringsteinSongs is the best thing to happen to Jewish music since someone put the Four Questions to music.

— Aaron Connelly (@ConnellyAL) November 8, 2012

https://twitter.com/NathanWurtzel/status/266605085788876801

https://twitter.com/NathanWurtzel/status/266604318550011904