Saturday, April 30, 2005

If the paper tells you you're a mob boss...

...check it out.

The Chicago Tribune had a rough week. The big headline to start the week was the crackdown on organized crime, and the Trib published photographs of the indicted. Just one problem. One of the photos was of the wrong guy, someone named Frank Calabrese -- who happened to have the same name as a mob boss. Oops. A correction ran the next day (April 27) in an article on the front page of the Metro section.

Ironically, in that same April 27 issue, a photo was published of a guy riding a bicycle, who was identifed as another organized crime figure named Joseph Lombardo. It couldn't be another case of mistaken identity, could it?

Yes, it could. Man in photo: not Lombardo. A correction ran the following day.

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