The Orlando Sentinel sentinel ran a “long” correction Sunday on a story they ran Jan. 6, 2002 saying a prisoner in the Seminole County jail had warned the FBI about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center.
“The problems stemmed from reporting that went beyond what was known and editing that was not as demanding as it should have been,” Public editor Manning Pynn said in his column. “There were other, lesser mistakes: a misspelled name, the misapplication of a legal term.”
“The primary problem here was flawed reporting and writing. Secondarily, the editing was lax,” Pynn said.
The paper didn’t publish the names of those who made the mistakes and “not everyone involved is still with the newspaper,” Pynn said.
You can read the newspaper’s corrections here.