Daily News Still Needs to Correct Escaped Convicts 'Photo Exclusive'

Front page of June 29 Metro edition got it wrong.

DailyNewsMetroFrontJune29In the most recent post on Picture Prosecutor, a media watchdog blog maintained by Albany Times Union editorial design director Thomas Palmer, it was noted that the front page of the June 29 Metro edition of the New York Daily News and accompanying online article got it wrong. That “Photo Exclusive” was not a surveillance camera photo of escaped Clinton Correctional Facility convicts Richard Matt and David Sweat, but rather two local residents trying to help out authorities with the search.

This week, Palmer has followed up.

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