Newspapers rarely tell readers how errors happen. But it's instructive to know how an embarrassing Page 1 mistake was made in a Feb. 9 story about a report by the Pentagon's acting inspector general, Thomas F. Gimble, on one piece of pre-Iraq war intelligence. -
How a Page 1 Mistake Was Made
Newspapers rarely tell readers how errors happen. But it's instructive to know how an embarrassing Page 1 mistake was made in a Feb. 9 story about a report by the Pentagon's acting inspector general, Thomas F. Gimble, on one piece of pre-Iraq war intelligence.-
By Deborah Howell