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on the wall.” Corning mothers had the Leader’s telephones fairly bouncing on the hook.
And the Bryan (Tex.) Eagle swallowed hard as it corrected the topic of a local discussion group from “How to Say No to a Baptist and Survive” when it should have said “How to say no to a rapist ...” For local flavor, the Journal reports, “When the Des Moines Register switched its ‘births’ and ‘deaths’ column headlines, city editor Paul Laurence spent the better part of a day writing apologetic letters.”
Some say the corrections “are a tactic to improve the newspaper’s credibility.”
Back in our family we never thought about credibility; we made corrections primarily to save our lives.
The late Jim Wilson of Carroll had the right idea. Having been in both the weekly and daily business, Jim decided the main advantage of having a daily was that you only had to wait 24 hours to make a correction.
—Don Reid in Iowa Bulletin
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