LAT

Correction o' the four days

LAT watcher Brady Westwater has been watching closely to see how long it will take for the Times to correct a story that said Los Angeles was incorporated as an American city in 1870. (The actual year was 1850, when California became a state, though el pueblo was settled in 1781.) Westwater says reporters have emailed to tell him there's even a betting pool within the Times on how long it will be before a correction shows up in print. The original story ran Tuesday, and now it looks as if the "For the Record" should be in today's paper. It's on the website anyway, though not yet fully posted to all the right spots.


More by Kevin Roderick:
Standing up to Harvey Weinstein
The Media
LA Times gets a top editor with nothing but questions
LA Observed Notes: Harvey Weinstein stripped bare
LA Observed Notes: Photos of the homeless, photos that found homes
Recent LAT stories on LA Observed:
LA Times gets a top editor with nothing but questions
LA Observed Notes: Harvey Weinstein stripped bare
Why the LA Times' new theater column needs a new name
Helping in Houston, new lion cubs, Garcetti's back
Memo: New LA Times publisher drops web widget
Warren Olney leaving KCRW's radio lineup
LA Times purge 'capped a month of newsroom turmoil'
As the L.A. Times turns ...


 

LA Observed on Twitter