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Headline: Washington Post Misquotes Cheney
09/16/2003

As Lane Core points out, the Washington Post has printed a correction of its egregious misquoting of Vice President Cheney, which I noted yesterday. It is, of course, an admirable thing that the Post made any correction at all in this day of media dishonesty, but I wonder how many people outside of pundit and politics-and-media-buff circles actually look at corrections.

Wouldn't it say a whole lot about a newspaper if it was in the habit of correcting itself in roughly the same level of the paper in which it made the mistake? Wouldn't it seem reasonable for a dramatically incorrect front-page story to be corrected on the front page?

Yeah, I know: keep dreaming. Well, it's what I would do if I weren't just some blogging schmoe.

Posted by Justin Katz @ 10:35 PM EST