Eugene Volokh, writing about a Slate correction to an error in a “Bushism” entry, says:

It’s to Slate’s credit that it promptly published the correction. Yet I wonder: Given the way Slate is organized — and the same goes for some other online journals — wouldn’t it be better to post a correction in the same e-column (which is to say under the rubric on the front screen) as the error appeared?

The front screen naturally doesn’t indicate exactly what the corrections are. I suspect that many readers don’t normally read the Corrections section. So as a result many readers who do habitually read the Bushisms column, and who read yesterday’s column, will never learn that what they were told yesterday wasn’t actually so.

Am I mistaken? I realize that newspaper tradition is to segregate corrections in a special corrections section. I’m not sure that’s right even for print newspapers, but does it really make sense online? Or is it the case that lots of people do read the Corrections section, and that the best way to reach Bushism readers — again, to un-mislead them — is through an entry in Corrections, rather than a new entry in Bushisms?

(All emphasis mine.)

A very timely comment, especially as to corrections by print newspapers, in light of my piece running in tomorrow’s L.A. Times on that very issue.