Regarding its Memorial Day article by John Eudy on the soldier from a Texas unit taking down the Nazi flag from over the Reichstag, the Chronicle editor has this to say:
In an e-mail to the Chronicle Tuesday, Eudy acknowledged his mistake. Eudy said his purpose was to honor the memory and exploits of a local soldier. The incident did not and could not have happened at the Reichstag building during the fall of Berlin to Russian troops.
In four paragraphs, it's twice mentioned that Eudy isn't a member of the Chronicle staff. Can't say I blame them for underscoring the point, as it has been established that the "mandate to engage in the unfair use of statistics, the misleading representation of opposing positions, and the conscious withholding of contrary data", and the like, is reserved for staff op-eds only.
Posted by floridacracker at June 1, 2005 10:26 PMThe "correction" wholly fails to address how such a story, wholly without attribution or sourcing of any kind, made it into the paper in the first place.
I worked for a weekly newspaper in a rural Georgia county, population at the time 19,000, and we would never have allowed such a story to be printed.
Posted by: Juan Paxety at June 2, 2005 09:21 AMNoticed that, did ya?
I bet the guy snuck in in the middle of the night and set his own type, even.