This column was amended from its original, which incorrectly reported that former Superior Court Judge Herbert Hoffman is ill, which was attributed to his wife. In fact, Hoffman is active as a private mediator, and his wife is deceased. The Union-Tribune regrets the error. Link Thanks, Randy! This correction was initially spotted by Rob Davis [...]
Carol Goodhue, readers representative of the San Diego Union-Tribune wrote a recent column about how a correction to an error in William Kristol’s New York Times column didn’t make its way to her paper before publication. As a result, the Times has now changed the way it sends out corrections to subscribers of its news [...]
Our obsessive cataloging of corrections occasionally enables us to spot a pattern. Whether it’s the failure of newspapers to identify someone they initially misidentified in a photo, or the inability of newspapers to accurately report on, well, newspapers, we sometimes feel as though we’re listening to a broken record. Such was the case when we [...]
