"There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters." Daniel Webster

Thursday, August 13, 2009

For IBD: Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word

Investor's Business Daily justly earned ridicule on two continents when it claimed that physicist Stephen Hawking would not survive under the United Kingdom's National Health Service. In fact, Hawking has survived more than 30 years of ALS as a British resident, including the first several years when he was did not enjoy the fame or acclaim he does today.

So how did the newspaper correct the error? Basically, it didn't.

Ezra Klein justly laughs at their latest efforts.

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