An excellent newspaper correction has just been published by the US title, the Newark Star-Ledger.
You need just a smidgeon of context first. Michael Drewniak is press secretary to New Jersey's beleaguered governor Chris Christie, who is embroiled in a political scandal. One of the other people involved is David Wildstein, an official with the New York and New Jersey port authority.
Both men are upset with the port authority's executive director, Patrick Foye, and the Star-Ledger appears to have wrongly attributed what they said about him. So here is the paper's po-faced and punctilious correction.
"An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated Drewniak referred to the port authority's executive director as a 'piece of crap.' While Drewniak did call him a 'piece of excrement,' it was David Wildstein who referred to the executive director as a 'piece of crap.'"
Hat tip: Poynter
