A correction from the paper’s online corrections page:
An obituary for Ken O’Brien in Wednesday’s Metro section included a headline that incorrectly stated the year of his death. O’Brien died in 2008. A corrected obituary appears today.
The correction found at the top of the online version of the story :
This corrected obituary replaces an erroneous obituary published March 5, 2008. The original obituary has been deleted from the archives.
Why delete an obituary due to an incorrect date? Were there other errors? As for the obituary, it’s about a freelance journalist who worked for, yes, the Chicago Tribune.
