21 September, 2011

 

Kudos to the Guardian

Now there's a statement you don't read very often round here. In a piece which is actually about the Een Stannat's "Get London Reading" campaign, Nick Cohen's original copy began

On the worst night of London rioting almost every shop in Clapham High Street was ransacked - except one. The bookshop.

and you can still see this version on the numerous sites which have quoted the piece or copied it wholesale. Following comments from readers, this is corrected in the online version to

On the worst night of London rioting almost every shop in Clapham Junction was ransacked - except one. The bookshop.

The correction has been made silently, which makes some of the below-the-line readers' comments a bit confusing. The Guardian, whatever else you might say about it, would have explicitly acknowledged the erratum.

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