The story that wasn't

IN Media Watch Briefs | 23/02/2014
It took a flurry of emails, phone calls and tweets, apart from an internal inquiry, for the Free Press Journal to publish a front-page retraction on a Valentine's Day story entitled "Helpline flooded with desperate calls before V-Day". The helpline coordinators quoted in the story were aggrieved that no reporter had contacted them and, in any case, they wouldn't have given out confidential details of callers. At least the newspaper took the right call when badgered.