Reporter Dials Wrong Number, Gets Great Wrong-Number Story

DemocratChronicleLogoOn Twitter, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reporter David Andreatta presents himself as a “writer of wrongs.” Never more so than in the case of his article “Wrong Number: This Joe Isn’t Your Assemblyman.”

This assignment began when, like so many before him, Andreatta accidentally dialed the home number of 73-year-old retiree Joe Bulman‘s rather than, as intended, the mobile number of New York State Assembly Democratic leader Joe Morelle. (The two numbers are just one, imperceptible prefix digit apart.) Recognizing

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