Opinion | Wall Street Journal corrected its editorial about a 10-year-old rape victim. Sort of. – The Washington Post

When is an editor’s note like a comb-over? When it’s trying to hide what the editor would rather not own up to.On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial declaring “fanciful” and “unlikely” the story of a 10-year-old rape victim who’d had to travel from Ohio to Indiana to get an abortion. Yet the Columbus Dispatch on Wednesday reported that a man had been charged with the rape, adding further ballast to a story that first surfaced in the Indianapolis Star on July 1.

Origen: Opinion | Wall Street Journal corrected its editorial about a 10-year-old rape victim. Sort of. – The Washington Post