Little did Betty Smith know that her novel about Irish immigrants living in Williamsburg would go on to inspire hundreds of articles that have nothing to do with her book at all, like this story in the New York Post headlined: "A tree (pose) grows in Brooklyn."
Sticking an "LOL" into a morbid story about someone's death is one of the scarier journalism nightmares we can think of at the moment. The only thing worse? Having to apologize for it.
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