[lbo-talk] great moments in correction

[Wendy Lyon]

On 9/20/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [from Gawker]
>
> Rather than go into detail on this one, we're going to give you a
> special GMIJ bonus: our favorite Times correction ever. It's from
> February of 2001:

There was a great one in the Irish Times a couple weeks ago concerning
a former PM of this country:

"A preview in Saturday's Irish Times Magazine of RTÉ Television's
four-part series of interviews with Dr Garret FitzGerald quoted the
former taoiseach as saying that early in his career, he was 'rather
juvenile in manner and a good deal of a prick'. Dr FitzGerald has
pointed out that ... the word he used was 'prig'."