So THAT’S how Andy Griffith really died. Seems like more of an Otis way to go. From: WGN-AM radio email alert from July 5, 2012. Source: Screenshot of original.
Honoring and archiving media mishaps, malaprops and related lapses in Fourth Estate judgment. It may not be an 8-year-old heroin addict named Jimmy, but it's enough to warrant penitence and apologies from the most iconic journalists.