Corrections & Clarifications/Haiti

It happens from time to time that a particular newspaper can print a serious mistake and, obviously, have to correct it as soon as possible.
For example ,when Queen Victoria visited Dublin in 1900 a newspaper report was supposed to have included the following sentence:''The crowds cheered as Queen Victoria pissed over O'Connell Bridge.''We must assume that this was a genuine error and that the correct wording should have been;''The crowds cheered as Queen Victoria passed over O'Connell Bridge.'',and that the correction was printed ,with appropriate apology a.s.a.p..
If nowadays a publication prints something like''man murders his mother ''and the following day prints a correction saying that it should have read''man accidently kills his cat '' or a headline like ''World To End Tomorrow'',is followed by a correction,'this should have read':''Price of Tomatoes to Increase'' we would certainly expect such a correction or clarification from the publication.
The following appeared under'' Corrections and Clarifications'' in todays Irish Times:''In the review of Alessandro Baricco's book on Homer's Iliad last Saturday,it was mistakenly stated that Achilles was the son of Peleus.Peleus was his mortal father.Achilles appealed to his mother,the goddess Thetis,asking her to intervene on his behalf with Zeus against Agamemnon.'' ....Oh my God ...sound the alarm....!!!....ring the Fire-brigade!!...Stop the presses!!....and all this time we all thought that Achilles' was ????who ( or should it be whom?)
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What a load of pretentious tripe?Who would have been upset if that correction had not been made?The writer of the article?The author of the book????Or some group of anonymous civil servants, with time on its hands , that bothers to read such articles ?


Haiti is beginning to come into the news again,now that the new secretary general of the United Nations ,Ban Ki-moon has visited there and assured the Haitian government that the U.N. will stay there, until their mission is accomplished,in line with that governments wishes.
Improvements over the past number of years include;Kidnappings in Sun City running at 100 per month ,6 months ago,...have stopped,,800 gang leaders jailed.following the U.N. Stabilisation Mission 6 week action and inflation dropped from 40% ,3 years ago,to 8% now... at last some good news .....