… but you likely won’t read about it in the McClatchy papers.

The recognition was for 2008’s “Best Use of Pseudonym”, awarded by Craig Silverman’s Regret The Error news blog in its annual round up of egregious errors in the media:

“When the letter criticizing the person who had tossed some litter from Char-Grill was published March 24, we noted that we had changed the offender?s name (as recorded on an order slip that was found by the letter-writer). Our intent, as explained in an editor?s note, was to avoid implicating others who might have the same, unusual first name. Instead, we used what was meant to be a generic ‘Susie.’

“Wouldn?t you know it, but a faithful Char-Grill customer is named Susie, and even sports her name on two license plates. Mrs. Susie Wright informs us that it wasn?t she who tossed uneaten french fries and the remains of a grilled cheese sandwich in front of Fletcher Park.”

The Raleigh paper was the only North Carolina news outlet so honored. Compared to the rest of “winners”, this was pretty tame.