The LA Times is running a correction in the middle of the online article where the original error appeared. Good for them. Slate’s the only other major publication I’ve seen doing this as a general practice – that needs to change.

Meanwhile, even though it published articles using two conflicting definitions of the term, the Washington Post appears to have not run a correction, clarification or explanatory article on the interrogration procedure known as “waterboarding.” I emailed the reporters in question and ombudsman Michael Getler, but to no avail. Jeffrey Smith responded to me directly, but that’s not the same thing as clarifying the issue for the record in print.