Poughkeepsie Journal Prints Incorrect “Correction”

Note: This entry re-written from original post.

Yesterday, we reported that the Poughkeepsie Journal had, in an editorial, incorrectly (falsely?) stated that Tom DeLay stepped down from his leadership post because of a “law” requiring him to do so. In today’s paper (print edition), they printed a correction on page two, in the little section “Getting it right” - which, most likely, very few people read. The correction read in its entirety as follows:

Incorrect terminology - An editorial on Sept. 30 should have said a House rule, rather than a law, required Rep. Tom Delay [sic] to leave his leadership post.

They got it wrong again! I’ve again notified the editors of this error. As I point out in my e-mail to them:

It is a rule that only applies to Republicans, and that is an important point to leave out, particularly since the Democrat Caucus does not have such a rule (a fact that the media strangely seem to find unimportant).

Even though the factually incorrect editorial appeared on their website, I could find no correction there. The editorial appears in Friday’s archive in its original form, with nothing to indicate that it is factually incorrect. Perhaps an online correction exists, but if it does, I doubt anyone read it because they probably can’t find it either.

(Posted Saturday, October 1, 2005 )