Correction with a kick
In Monday’s editions of the New York Post, we published a story that confessed wife-killer Johnny Concepcion underwent a liver-transplant operation at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
The hospital yesterday issued a statement that no such operation took place. The Post relied on two NYPD sources for its report, and it is now evident they were misinformed. We apologize to our readers for the error.
Prior to publishing the story, The Post sought official response from New York-Presbyterian. The Post was denied information by the hospital, which stated it could not discuss individual cases because it would be in breach of the Health Information Privacy Act (HIPA).
Curiously, the hospital now sees itself free to publicly discuss Concepcion’s case. Link
Update July 29, 8:20 am: The Village Voice has some interesting background on this correction. From a post published last night:
A tipster tells us that Rupert Murdoch was so enthralled with the story when it ran, that he called Post editor-in-chief Col Allan to personally congratulate him on it. Logic would follow, then, that Murdoch called Col Allan to personally deliver his rage and desire to see an axe drop at some point today, sending everyone involved with the story into crisis mode, we heard …
Report an error