Yesterday I pointed out an egregious reporting error in Milton Valencia’s piece on an important pre-trial motion in the Whitey Bulger case.
In the story Valencia wrote
Bulger’s lawyers had asked Casper to vacate the decision made by US District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns, who recused himself from the case out of concern that he would have a conflict of interest in overseeing the trial.
That of course was a misstatement of fact. Judge Stearns was ordered of the case by a federal appeals court in an unprecedented decision written by retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
Now we all make mistakes and I fully expected this black mark on accurate reporting would be removed. Much like the Globe would fix an incorrect box score.
But no. It’s still there.
This error was pointed out on Matt Connolly’s masterpiece Whitey Bulger blog and Matt commented that The Globe will not change it. They want to continue to mislead, including future historians and armchair historians.
Others suggest that they have to continue to cooperate in the charade because the nefarious relationship the Globe has with Team Wyshak and Margolis
I, always the naive one, did not believe this. But now I am not so sure.
I figure Milton and Brian have been busy with Opening Day on Monday and the amazing 800 game sell-out streakk ending on Yawkey Way. So I expect we will see the change by the end of the week.
But that’s me. Always an optimist and I tend to only see the good in people.
2weeksy says
the Globe never corrects its mistakes.