{"id":9172,"date":"2010-07-30T08:28:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T12:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/?p=9172"},"modified":"2010-07-30T08:28:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T12:28:04","slug":"paul-farhi-gets-it-wrong-in-dmv-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2010\/07\/paul-farhi-gets-it-wrong-in-dmv-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Farhi gets it wrong in DMV article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paul Farhi<\/strong> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/07\/29\/AR2010072905868.html?hpid=topnews\"><strong>story in The Post today about DMV becoming a preferred term for the greater Washington D.C. metropolitan are<\/strong>a<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Actually, long before then, Washington&#8217;s Channel 9 was known as WDMV-TV, which stood for &#8220;the District, Maryland and Virginia.&#8221; But WDMV died long before the current vogue for &#8220;the DMV&#8221; (the call letters live on at a small AM radio station in Walkersville, Md.). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wusa9.com\/company\/about_us\/default.aspx\">Channel 9 was known as WDVM<\/a>. The even used the legacy when they launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvmmoms.com\"><strong>dvmmoms.com<\/strong><\/a> (now DC Moms Like Me)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Rtx4ccFFdfQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0&amp;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>That is just an awful error that should have been caught by editors or by Farhi himself. Seriously, there are things called search engines. Unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I don&#8217;t like the term DMV, I much prefer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/category\/beltwayland\"><strong>BeltwayLand<\/strong><\/a>. I&#8217;ve been using it for 15 years. 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