Comments so far on this story:

1. La Playa Heritage wrote on April 2, 2008 8:40 AM:
"Here a timely story where the City Attorney Mike Aguirre save a Historic Home from demolition and instead the UT spun the story into a hit piece on the Role of the City Attorney. No good deed goes unpunished by the UT. link The historic homes built in 1911 on Coast Boulevard across the street from the Pacific Ocean were_saved from improper demolished by Mr. Aguirre. link link Checking the_court records would have solved_the mystery. The project on Coast Boulevard between Scripps Park and Children's Pool on the coastline. By law, the project is appealable to the California Coastal Commission (CCC), but the report said it was outside the bound of CCC authority. This was a project that did not follow the correct process in the Municipal Code and fell through the cracks. It was an emergency measure to save a designated historic structure from demolition."

2. Gayle Falkenthal wrote on April 2, 2008 8:52 AM:
"I've operated on both sides of the aisle (as both a member of the news media and as a public relations professional working on behalf of clients with the media), and I understand that mistakes happen. It's the willingness to own up and repair the damage that makes the difference to me. Broadcasters are loath to correct errors, even significant ones. When I worked for the district attorney's office, we were the subject of a scathing report by a local TV station that misreported a key figure because the reporter's math was off by a decimal point... meaning she reported a number 10 times larger than it really was. The station refused to correct its mistake, saying that the spirit of the story was still legitimate. Argh. I've had better luck over the years with print media... including the Union-Tribune. Must give credit where it's due."

3. Christopher Hall wrote on April 2, 2008 9:49 AM:
"What is silly is this whiny corrections issue! You spelled my name wrong -- Whaaa!!! // The real issue is the ongoing, long-term malfeasance vis a vis the misrepresentation of the news. For example, the SD-UT is a shameless supporter of the century old city establishment that favors a few special interests -- the Copley name is the bedrock foundation of this system. How can this paper have any credibility with that name attached? Look at their editorials -- you can barely tell them apart from the so-called news they print. // All across the country, and the world, there are many similar newspapers where the entrenched family business or even corporate news business favors the powers that be: for example, the concern about Murdoch's control over the WSJ was founded on his personal preferences and the potential loss of objectivity in the paper."

4. Codger wrote on April 2, 2008 10:52 AM:
"How about the legendary correction in the Union (or was it the Tribune) on the travel story about Susanville, Calif. that was so wrong it appeared the reporter never actually visited the town? The correction was almost as long as the article itself."

5. Fred wrote on April 2, 2008 11:00 AM:
"How about a piece on the stories that got away, Seth? You know, like the one about the SDPD cop who shot a woman and her 8 YEAR OLD KID in a case of road rage not long ago, and got put on ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE while the hoopla blows over and the city settles with the woman and promises not to arrest her as an added incentive to take their coin. Hell, boy, you're a reporter; go get the @#$! thing and ask some judges, the City Attorney, the D.A. and Chief Landsdowne why that cop is sitting home, drinking beer, watching TV and slamming the old lady, while his victims convulse in agony due to bullet wounds and blood loss. PAGE #@#$$! ONE TOP OF THE FOLD, you wussy dillettante; wake up the editor at VOSD and get its butt on that one, too."

6. jimg wrote on April 2, 2008 11:54 AM:
"How about the piece Seth wrote about Don Bauder. Care to retract some of those charges?"

7. Larry wrote on April 2, 2008 5:22 PM:
"I'm still waiting for Voice to admit that they made a mistake when they decided to use you as a contributor. Now that would be a worthy correction."

8. Ruthie wrote on April 4, 2008 9:17 PM:
"Larry Larry Larry...why do you hate? It's amusing, of course, that you work so hard to undermine Seth's self-esteem, but I just wonder where your vitriol comes from."

9. Richard Rider wrote on April 5, 2008 10:07 AM:
"I follow (and am sometimes a part of) inaccurate media stories. But my favorite was the November 30, 2004 SD U-T story that rocked San Diego. The headline was "10.9% in S.D. high schools attempted suicide [last year], report says." Scared the hell out of parents, I can tell you. But the story was wrong on so many, many points -- including decimal points. Bias is sometimes a problem in stories, but journalistic innumeracy is a far more pervasive problem -- along with laziness and sloppiness by both reporters AND editors. It took considerable effort for me to get the story corrected, and even then the correction was badly flawed."

10. Richard Rider wrote on April 5, 2008 10:07 AM:
"I follow (and am sometimes a part of) inaccurate media stories. But my favorite was the November 30, 2004 SD U-T story that rocked San Diego. The headline was "10.9% in S.D. high schools attempted suicide [last year], report says." Scared the hell out of parents, I can tell you. But the story was wrong on so many, many points -- including decimal points. Bias is sometimes a problem in stories, but journalistic innumeracy is a far more pervasive problem -- along with laziness and sloppiness by both reporters AND editors. It took considerable effort for me to get the story corrected, and even then the correction was badly flawed."

11. Neal Matthews wrote on April 7, 2008 7:01 AM:
"Seth's column brought to mind one of my own worst transgressions, breaking the rule of never putting anything about Roger Hedgecock in a news story. I was stringing for the NY Times and wrote a story about Air America hitting the airwaves in San Diego (RIP). Roger always made good copy when I was at the Reader, so I called him up to get his predictable fulminations, and he obliged. But in pointing out that he resigned as mayor after being convicted of campaign finance violations, I stupidly left out information that was crucial to him, if nobody else: he later got the conviction expunged (not overturned) from his record. He called the Times, which was good enough to let me write the correction, a relatively mild "referred incompletely to." I'm still pissed and embarrassed about it. Note to young journalists: Never, ever break the news blackout on Hedgecock."