GET IT RIGHT - AT 7:40 P.M. ET:  One of the things I was taught at the Graduate School of Journalism is the importance of making sure, if you're running a correction, that the correction is actually correct.

The AP could have used that advice today.  Here is a correction they ran:

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a March 5 story, The Associated Press reported that congressional Republicans requested an investigation of Charles Freeman, new chairman of the National Intelligence Council, for his relationships with China and Iran. The story should have specified that Democrats Rep. Steve Israel of New York and Rep. Shelley Berkley of Nevada also joined that request.

COMMENT:  Just two little problems:  First, Freeman isn't chairman, but chairman-designate.  Second, it isn't Freeman's relationships with China and Iran that's the issue, it's his relationships with China and Saudi Arabia.

Let's get it right, guys.  Yikes.

March 6, 2009