> On 6/25/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, most of the rest of the piece was true. There is a crackdown
>> underway, even if it doesn't result in guys sucking butt-cleansing
>> cans for wearing tight t-shirts.
>
> Possibly, but how can you be so sure that it was? It reminds me of a remark
> that Alexander Cockburn once made: the corrections column in the New York
> Times is there to give the impression that everything else in the paper was
> true.
I agree. Some skepticism is in order. There may be more substantial corrections later. I mean, several years later, when the corrections won't matter much.