This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: November 13, 2011
The Riff column on Page 54 this weekend, about age and cultural relevance, misstates the author’s age in 1998, when a toy with a McDonald’s meal made sounds her grandmother could not hear. It was 15, not 8 or 9. The column also misidentifies the children’s story in which a mirror answers the question “Who’s the Fairest of Them All?” It is “Snow White,” not “Sleeping Beauty.”
”You are culturally relevant if Tom Gauld illustrates your thoughts; you are culturally irrelevant if you mix up Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, and if you forget that Mulan came out when you were in high school because you’re thinking about your own cultural relevance, you spend too much time reading comments on the internet.
If the newspaper couldn’t check on any of those facts, then the newspaper spends too much time caring about what the internet will think.
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