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| Chris Christie newspaper correction is one to savour | |
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| An excellent newspaper correction has just been published by the US title, the Newark Star-Ledger. | An excellent newspaper correction has just been published by the US title, the Newark Star-Ledger. |
| You need just a smidgeon of context first. Michael Drewniak is press secretary to New Jersey's beleaguered governor Chris Christie, who is embroiled in a political scandal. One of the other people involved is David Wildstein, an official with the New York and New Jersey port authority. | You need just a smidgeon of context first. Michael Drewniak is press secretary to New Jersey's beleaguered governor Chris Christie, who is embroiled in a political scandal. One of the other people involved is David Wildstein, an official with the New York and New Jersey port authority. |
| Both men are upset with the port authority's executive director, Patrick Foye, and the Star-Ledger appears to have wrongly attributed what they said about him. So here is the paper's po-faced and punctilious correction. | Both men are upset with the port authority's executive director, Patrick Foye, and the Star-Ledger appears to have wrongly attributed what they said about him. So here is the paper's po-faced and punctilious correction. |
| "An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated Drewniak referred to the port authority's executive director as a 'piece of crap.' While Drewniak did call him a 'piece of excrement,' it was David Wildstein who referred to the executive director as a 'piece of crap.'" | "An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated Drewniak referred to the port authority's executive director as a 'piece of crap.' While Drewniak did call him a 'piece of excrement,' it was David Wildstein who referred to the executive director as a 'piece of crap.'" |
| Hat tip: Poynter | Hat tip: Poynter |
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