Washington Post columnist John Kelly recently turned up a dandy of a correction from the Post's archives. Read his column for the story that preceded this correction, which was published in 1897: LANHAM, MD., AUG. 18 — The account of a horsewhipping in this morning's Post, in which Andrew Hancock and Clifford Lanham were the [...]
An article last Sunday about the morality of dealing with looting in times of disaster incorrectly stated that a blackout in 1965, which did not bring disorder to New York, resulted instead in a baby boom nine months later. There was no baby boom. A widespread belief that there had been one originated with a [...]
Ben Welter’s Yesterday’s News blog at the Star Tribune recently featured a lengthy correction that was published on January 1, 1890: The Tribune has no apologies to offer for an annual number that is, considering the circumstances under which it has been prepared, a most creditable piece of statistical and review work. But it must [...]
