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Dec 07 2009

Nearly 2 Months Since Major Washington Post Error, No Correction

Posted by Dan Gillmor in Accuracy, Bad journalism, Trust

More than eight weeks since it ran an editorial based on a false premise, the Washington Post has neither acknowledged nor corrected its mistake. Shameful.

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  1. Mediactive » When the “Writer” Isn’t: Ghost Writing for Editorial Pages says:
    December 9, 2009 at 8:49 am

    [...] op-ed columns and editorials that contain falsehoods. (Sometimes they correct the errors; often they [...]

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