I also was not surprised to see another NCP journalistic lapse, which was first identified by a member of the Nashville Charrette this morning. The original copy incorrectly reported that Joe Cain, "a primary player in the Development Office," had lost his job. In a scene reminiscent of an erroneous story on North End gangs, the NCP webmaster scrubbed their site of the following error that still appears in today's hard copy:
In addition, Joe Cain, director of real estate, lost his job in the downsizing.Why doesn't NCP ever feel the need to post a correction rather than just a deletion of serious factual errors on the website? If past form holds, we won't see a correction in hard copy for days and when it does come it will be buried somewhere in back.
Check out today's (8/7) City Paper for the correction on the City Voices page, 6. It says " In our Friday, Aug. 4 edition, we reported that MDHA employee Joe Cain had lost his job in a downsizing. He did not. We regret the error."
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If by "always" you mean, "except for March 01, 2006, when their correction was buried on page 15 in a column with an entirely unrelated title," then you are correct. I am sure there are other exceptions to the term "always" in anon's otherwise sweeping generalization.
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