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PROF. JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Still Waiting For A Correction From Bill Keller. Whether the Times is imp?

By Glenn Reynolds

PROF. JOSEPH CAMPBELL: Still Waiting For A Correction From Bill Keller.

Whether the Times is impartial open to serious debate. What interests Media Myth Alert is Keller?s claim that the Times strives for promptness in correcting errors ? even to the point of seeming a bit absurd in doing so.

Keller wrote that ?when we get it wrong, we correct ourselves as quickly and forthrightly as possible. Connoisseurs of penitence find The Times a bottomless source of amusement. (An actual correction: ?An article in The Times Magazine last Sunday about Ivana Trump and her spending habits misstated the number of bras she buys. It is two dozen black, two dozen beige and two dozen white, not two thousand of each.?)?

But the policy of publishing a prompt and forthright correction certainly hasn?t been followed in the matter of a correction the Times flubbed two months ago ? a lapse that I brought to the attention of the newspaper and its public editor, or ombudsman. . . . Surely, if the Times deigns it important to set the record straight about Ivana Trump?s bras, it ought to fix its flawed correction about the Army-McCarthy hearings.

Get in line, buddy. The error in my case was trivial, but the correction came nearly a decade later, though I wrote them at the time.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 27, 2011 (boomark / email).