great moments in correction
[from Gawker]
Rather than go into detail on this one, we’re going to give you a
special GMIJ bonus: our favorite Times correction ever. It’s from
February of 2001:
“Because of an editing error, an article on Tuesday about the court
case in Chile against Gen. Augusto Pinochet misidentified the ocean
into which the military apparently dumped the father of Viviana Diaz,
a woman who leads a group of surviving family members. It was the
Pacific, not the Atlantic.”