Credit The Guardian with quickly responding to an HonestReporting reader who spotted an error in Hugh MacLeod’s capsule profiles of the Lebanese prisoners released by Israel.
Reporter Hugh MacLeod wrote — incorrectly — that Dalal Mughrabi hijacked two busses full of soldiers. The busses were actually full of civilians.
Let’s see if the San Francisco Chronicle — which reprinted MacLeod’s piece — corrects the record too.
Editors republish articles from other papers all the time. Isn’t there a system for papers republishing articles to be automatically notified of subsequent corrections?
