Welsh Political News

Purely in the spirit of being a nasty, vindictive blogger targetting the Mainstream Media because nonsense is sometimes published about "bloggers", I can report that in the 10 Editorial Days from 19 September 2008 to 30 September 2008 the corrections column of the Guardian contained no fewer than 41 separate items, which comes to around a thousand a year if you multiply it up.

I should note that:

• Some of these are gorgeous spelling errors or typos: "Ordnance Survey, not the Ordinance Survey", "Mike Harding, not Mark Harding", "A glotteral stop".
• Some are funny (and the corrections correspondent has a sense of humour): "It's not a hospital, but a school for boys, although it did once provide the venue for an episode of Casualty ".
• One looks actionable: "We apologise for unfairly failing to give her an adequate opportunity to respond and for making inaccurate personal references about her."
• There are a couple of absolute howlers: "Margaret Thatcher was MP for Finchley, not Grantham. She was born and brought up in Grantham."
• It can take days to publish a correction.
• I am using the Guardian purely because they make the information available in an easily accessible form.
• These corrections are - presumably - ones reported, and do not include columns or articles based on incorrect facts, a vivid imagination or gibberish.