Washington Post Editorial Remains Uncorrected
Posted by Dan Gillmor in Principles, TrustUPDATED
Two weeks More than a month 10 weeks after running an editorial with an egregious factual error, the Washington Post has yet to correct or explain its mistake.
Recapping from an earlier item here: The Post suggested that the Nobel Peace Prize that went to President Obama should have been awarded instead to Neda Agha-Soltan, an Iranian woman who was shot and killed during the post-election protests earlier in Iran this year.
The Post failed to do its homework, as the Atlantic’s James Fallows noted in detail (here, here). The Nobel Peace Prize rules are clear: The only time it can be awarded after death is when the honoree had already been named “but who had died before he/she could receive the Prize on December 10.”
An honorable editorial page would correct such a mistake. The Post, despite knowing about this, has not. Draw your own conclusion.
UPDATE: Still uncorrected as of Dec. 20.
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