HEARING INDEX: CORRECTIONS

Complaint	Hearing # Year	Decision	Media	Description
Inadequate correction of editorial	#16 1975	Not Upheld	Minneapolis Tribune	Inaccuracies in an editorial not sufficiently corrected by publishing letter with an editor's note admitting error
Offensive language, corrections	#22 1976	Not Upheld	St. Paul Dispatch	Second column admitting errors was not sufficient remedy and used same offensive language (gay rights group)
Inadequate and poorly timed	#26 1977	Upheld	Minneapolis Tribune	Factual errors, admitted by paper, inadequately corrected - tardy, nonsystematic, inadequate
Unwillingness to correct	#38 1979	Upheld	Minneapolis Tribune	Paper purchased wrong product in survey unfavorable to chocolate company and refused to publish clarification
Inadequate correction	#41 1981	Upheld	Duluth News-Tribune	Follow-up article inadequately clarified misconceptions created in 1st article about campaign fundraising efforts (subject once again not contacted) and correction did not receive comparable treatment.
False implications, failure to correct	#44 1981	Upheld	Corporate Report Minnesota	Article implied state auditor Arne Carlson was involved in conspiracy; magazine conceded it had not promptly corrected known errors, but had been willing to publish a letter
Inaccurate, failure to correct	#47 1983	Upheld*	Minnesota Daily	Paper failed to respond promptly and correctly when gun owners complained that article inaccurately stated attorney general had not pushed for gun-control legislation
Inaccurate, failure to correct	#48 1983	Not Upheld*	Stillwater Evening Gazette	Nuclear freeze movement complained that editorial associated them with radical leftists
Poor placement of correction	#52 1984	Not Upheld*	Star Tribune	For an error in a column on sports page, correction appearing on page 3 of section A considered inadequate
Poor placement of correction	#53 1984	Not Upheld	Fargo Forum	Error in front-page article corrected on back page of first section (standard policy) considered inadequate
Refused to consider correction	#64 1986	--	Dakota County Tribune	Complainant treated poorly when he asked for correction
Correction out of context	#77 1988	Not Upheld	Star Tribune	Complainant not satisfied with correction made without giving context of original error
Inadequate correction	#119 1998	Upheld	Faribault Daily News	Correction was insufficient in light of trauma and in light of other printed corrections
Inadequate correction	#128 2001	Upheld	The West Sherburne Tribune	Paper eventually published correct information, but did not directly correct initial wrong information.
Inadequate Correction	#131	Not Upheld	St. Paul Pioneer Press	Follow-up story did not acknowledge shortcomings of first two stories (one of which was deemed unfair by the News Council)