If you die, then maybe the least the Washington Post can do is figure out how to write your name properly.

Dith Pran, the journalist and activist whose life inspired the movie The Killing Fields, passed away Sunday. He died from pancreatic cancer, which is very bad and which I have a personal vendetta against. Anyhow! Let's carry on: Poor guy, and you'd think the Washington Post could at least get his name right. I understand that those Cambodian names can be a doozy, but they had NO CLUE. Above, you can see that in the first story that appeared online, the paper was baffled about whether Dith or Pran was his first/last name. So they just decided to run his full name in every reference. Which looked really dumb, as you can see.

They even have a quote from someone calling the guy Pran, which would seem to suggest that it was his first name, and if you weren't sure, why not just ask your source? You could have even asked the NY Times, cause they had it right the first time. Just sayin'. I really respect the WaPo, but you'd think that they'd have someone there who would know these things. Even on a Sunday.

The story was fixed in a later edition. You can see that here.