A Shaky Performance on Corrections

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A Shaky Performance on Corrections

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/09/AR2008050902044.html   

By Deborah Howell
Sunday, May 11, 2008; Page B06

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."