March 23, 3005 - Mistakes

Erring is human, right?

The question is however how much erring can and should a newspaper be allowed to subject its readers to before one cancels the subscription?

Point in case: The Bulletin, our local attempt at daily news coverage. Today, in its infinite wisdom, it printed on its front page - under the headline Panel calls for two tax districts for sheriff levy the following paragraph:

"Editor's note: The Bulletin corrects all errors in fact that appear in the newspaper. The errors in a story published Tuesday about taxes to support the sheriff's office and county jail were so broad that they could not be corrected outside the context of the full story. Therefore, working with county officials and the sheriff's office, we have rewritten the story in its entirety. We regret these mistakes."

You're SO not forgiven. I hope the reporter and editor got either fired, or at least their wrists spanked.

Conveniently, the paper also omitted both the faulty, as well as the rewritten one today, from its online content.

Leave no traces ... not even in the interest of the public....

And so back to doing my taxes I go - keeping in mind that I will have to start saving up for the insane tax hike the corrupt sheriff of this lovely county has in mind for us property owners ...