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Dec 12 2009

Nine Weeks and Counting for Uncorrected Washington Post Error

Posted by Dan Gillmor in Accuracy, Bad journalism

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

Then again, the same editorial page routinely publishes op-ed columns that are not truthful. Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised when the people who write the editorials do the same.

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