The news broke today that columnist Robert Novak, who recently revealed that he has a brain tumor, is retiring. Many news organizations are carrying a corrected version of an AP story. The early version of it suffered from a rather unfortunate omission in the second sentence of the last paragraph:
AP apparently caught the error shortly after moving the story. The above screenshot is taken from the website of WCTV. As of now, the story is still uncorrected. The early version also made its way onto other sites, as this Google search shows:














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Considering his role in l’affair Plame, both the uncorrected version is true and the corrected version his just deserts.
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