An inadequate correction on Sunday's editorial
The Chron is running a little correction relating to Sunday's editorial:
An editorial on Page E2 of Sunday's Chronicle repeated an error in an Associated Press story. A White House video showed President Bush being warned that floodwaters could flow over New Orleans' levees. He was not told the levees could be breached.
Uh huh. Except that the hapless Editorial LiveJournalists said this in their editorial:
While Bush stated days after the storm that no one expected a breach of the New Orleans levees, the tapes show experts warning him of that specific possibility.
The Chron's correction places the blame on the AP, instead of the LiveJournalists. If they had watched the video, and Sunday's editorial implies they did, they would have known that Bush was not warned of the "specific possibility" of levee breaches, and presumably they would not have written the erroneous editorial.
And when we go back to the editorial, we can see there is no correction noted. So unless one reads that teensy little corrections box, or follows the online link to the corrections page, one would never know there is a huge problem with that editorial.
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Posted by Anne Linehan @ 03/07/06 09:13 AM | Houston Chronicle | Print | Comments (2)
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