Tom Honig, editor of the Santa Cruz (Calif.) Sentinel, wrote in s "
To Our Readers": <p>
In today’s [June 21] Sentinel, you are reading something that is unprecedented in my 31 years with this newspaper: a third front-page correction of a story.
The original story was published last Sunday on Page 1. The story detailed what was alleged to be a lack of oversight by county government over nonprofit agencies that serve those in need throughout the county.
By now, many of you are aware that the story had numerous factual errors, and also suffered from an inadequate explanation of the financial health of some agencies. We have painstakingly made amends to those whose story we did not tell correctly or completely. <p>***I noted that some of the entries on a list that followed weren't "corrections," but rather amplifications or after-the-fact editing. The original story seems no longer to be available online. I've asked for clarification.***