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Article: A Shaky Performance on Corrections
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 11, 2008
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The Post's approach to corrections is not consistent: Some run
promptly, others are resisted, a few go astray. And top editors are
not looking for trends in the statistics kept on corrections.
Not all correction requests are valid, and the decisions on
whether to publish them can be difficult. But rejected requests nag
at the ombudsman to investigate.
An April 3 story by Jose Antonio Vargas on how people "live" on
the Internet after death focused on the murder of a gay teenager,
Lawrence "Larry" King, in California. The story mentioned two other
"reminiscent" murders -- that of Matthew Shepard in 1998 and Eddie
Araujo in 2002, "both also gay."
Several readers said Araujo wasn't gay, ...