25980: Walton: (Reply) RE: 25976: Craig (comment) Quality journalism (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

waltonr@hotmail.com

Re: "PORT-AU-PORT, Haiti (AP) -- One of Haiti's most powerful gang leaders
said he would be willing to surrender if U.N. peacekeepers guarantee his
safety."

Good catch, wrong conclusion.  The "dateline" error was made by the
Associated Press.  AP subscriber choices were to use the article in its
entirety or discard it; they can't edit an AP copyrighted release.  (Just
try to get AP to do a re-write and a retransmit and meet your publication
deadline!) The NYT editor who chose to use the article likely weighed its
news value against the obvious error.