You have a point, but it's going to be a roll of the dice, depending almost wholly on the reporter to be sympathetic both as a listener and in writing it up. If I were him, I'd call the Daily, demand a printed correction, and if they print one, call it good enough and leave it at that. If not, then perhaps consider this other option, which I think runs as great a chance of digging him another hole as clearing his name. Or even better, don't talk to reporters, get legal representation, let him do the talking and sue the Daily.gavinmac wrote:CD may not want to correct it because of the shame, shame, shame. I understand a reporter from another paper wants to do a story on it and has tried to contact Erdman via Facebook.
Hard to do a story on mistaken identity when the victim won't give the reporter a quote saying he thinks he was the victim of mistaken ID.
It would benefit him to have this cleared up in a succinct news story by a professional reporter. Only nutjobs read 20 page Khmer440 threads.
Also, maybe people should stop depending on Facebook so much and just go to his house and knock on the door.