When a Correction Is Barely a Correction

Slow down the presses!

Our first exhibit is attached to a Dec. 23 AP story by Sandy Cohen. The tease (pictured) sits at press time at the top of various Associated Press pages and is essentially impossible to ignore.

What might the mistake be, we wondered. An erroneous attribution of the late actress as the voice of Darth Vader? A mention of Burt Reynolds as her father? Not quite:

In a story Dec. 23 about Carrie Fisher’s medical emergency, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the movie “Postcards From the Edge” was released in 1987.

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