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Jan

16

Correction of the Week

Okay, so nobody reads the Saturday Daily News, so nobody probably saw this correction. On Friday the DN ran photos of homicide victims in the city in 2005 on Page 1. Okay, a nice gesture, and obviously the homicide rate in this city is out of control.

Only problem was, one of them wasn’t a homicide victim:

The Daily News on Friday ran a panel of pictures on Page 1 of homicide victims in the city in 2005. Inadvertently included was a picture of Richard Dawson, 21, who wasn’t a murder victim but who stabbed to death one of seven youths who attacked him on Oct. 29 near his East Mount Airy home. Police released Dawson after concluding he acted in self-defense after being attacked by a group of gay bashers.

So, not only did they run a photo of someone who’s alive, they ran a photo of someone who killed someone in self-defense. Fantastic!

Correction [DN]
 
dmac | 9:45 AM | 5 Comments
Corrections, Daily News, Homicides
 
  1. mike Says: Jan 16 9:48 AM

    Same thing, right?

  2. mark Says: Jan 16 12:26 PM

    No mistake here, this is the only way a victim of gay bashing would get his picture on the cover of the DN.

  3. Col. Hogan Says: Jan 16 1:55 PM

    Um, Richard Dawson was the guy on Hogan’s Heroes (and the Family Feud). The kid who got beat up and wound up killing his attacker is named LUCAS Dawson.

    Sounds like another round of buyouts are in order at the Daily News!

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