AFP FINALLY Corrects Their Labeling of Spitzer as an (R) -- Big Deal

In practical terms, this means very little. The vast majority of any damage done -- the error was in place when the news was in fact still news -- has already occurred.

Besides which:

... you may still find a few instances of it on client Internet sites to which we have no immediate access.

A wire service correcting only their copy -- and not reaching out to at least the majors amongst their clients to do the same -- accomplishes very little.

Very few people rush to AFP.com to check days-old stories (I believe it is similar in phone-booth group size to that which watches MSNBC) who will then and there see the correction.

Their client list is undoubtedly large, and the prospect of contacting them all daunting. But to not contact a few huge clients -- like say Yahoo!, which is where where we found it -- shows you are perhaps less than completely serious about rectifying the situation.

Proving the ineffectiveness of their approach to restoring "absolute accuracy": Where we saw the error initially -- we see it still.

One wonders how they have handled, and would handle again, errors that harm Democrats rather than help them.