The Washington Post is in the midst of trying to catch up on an embarrassing backlog of corrections requests. I don’t think there’s any way to explain this laxity except that the WaPo really doesn’t care what its readers think. At least their ombudsman seems to care:
Today’s column isn’t intended as a pat on the back. The Post doesn’t deserve congratulations for addressing a problem that shouldn’t have arisen. Rather, this is an update for readers on steps The Post has taken recently to restore faith in its commitment to correcting mistakes.
Sad that it took an ombudsman’s insistence to get The Post to do what it should have done all along.
