GETTING THINGS RIGHT.

• Date: 01 October 2020
• Author: Lueders, Bill

There is a correction on page 12 of this issue to which I would like to call your attention. It is about how our obituary for a longtime contributor who died May 30 at age fifty-seven ran under the headline, "Mark Anthony Rolo, 1962-2000," when of course this should have been "1962-2020." This errant stab at a keyboard, committed by me, withstood a careful review by at least seven readers, some more than once, as with everything that appears in this magazine.

It is not the world's greatest error--most readers either looked past it, as we apparently did, or quickly figured it out. But I am struck by how much it stings. That's because, in an era in which lies have become as common as dust, those of us at The Progressive care about getting things right. Our in-progress copy is riddled with posted comments...