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Apology

March 24, 2008 – 8:00 am

A series of front-page photographs of local soldiers killed in Iraq, published Friday, mistakenly included a photo of Marine Cpl. Ted “T.J.” Cothran instead of a photo of his brother, Marine Lance Cpl. Derrick J. Cothran. Derrick Cothran was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2006. T.J. Cothran, while also serving in Iraq, [...]

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Updated: Watch where you point that thing

February 15, 2008 – 8:00 am

Nagin photo clarified: A photo in some Metro sections Wednesday showed a laughing Mayor Ray Nagin pointing an M4 rifle at Chief of Police Warren Riley at a news conference to announce new crime-fighting equipment purchased by the New Orleans Police Department. A review of a video taken at the event shows that the mayor [...]

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Pity the current residents

January 16, 2008 – 8:00 am

Wrong residence: Brandon K. Harris, who is wanted on a murder warrant, does not live at 4180 E. Ames Blvd. in Marrero, as reported Monday, a resident of that address said. Link

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Attention journalists everywhere: James Dobson is not a minister

May 19, 2006 – 8:01 am

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 [...]

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