Why is the New York Times famous for its corrections? One, because they actually do them. Two, because they write them to stand alone, needing no annotation or explanation. For example:
Correction: November 9, 2014
An article last Sunday about Bradley Cooper, who is starring in a Broadway revival of “The Elephant Man,” referred incorrectly to the London address where Joseph Carey Merrick — the real Elephant Man — exhibited himself. The address is now a sari store — it is not, our sincerest apologies, “a sorry store.”
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