AP Posts Long Correction on Ireland Children's-Mass-Grave Horror Story

Tim Graham
June 21st, 2014 11:32 PM
On June 3, Shawn Pogatchnik of the Associated Press picked up on a horror story from western Ireland: “a researcher found records for 796 young children believed to be buried in a mass grave beside a former orphanage for the children of unwed mothers” in County Galway. That sounds like a terrible story, if true. AP and Pogatchnik somehow skipped over Britain's Channel 4 reporting in March on…