now, see, this is how it's supposed to work.

[jrtom]

Halfway down this editorial by Molly Ivins--look for "CROW EATEN HERE"--is one of the more impressive and pointed retractions that I've seen in major-market journalism in quite some time. She made an assertion, she realized (or was informed) that it was flat wrong, and she spends the last half of this column exploring just how wrong it was, in detail. Go Molly!

This is what ethical journalism looks like. Novak, Coulter, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, are you paying attention? Of course not. (Or, if you are, it's so that you can poke fun at Molly Ivins--who had the guts to do what you never do--without recognizing the irony.)