[Imc-web] In order to correct an error in my article/Doug Soderstrom.

[Mike Lehman]

HI Doug,
I think your article was posted here at UC IMC. I remember seeing it. 
But now I can't find it. We've had some issues with our editing lately 
and I suspect that your article may have been accidentally deleted. If I 
do come across it, I will edit in the text you've provided, offering it 
as an author's afterword.

Provided I find it posted here at UC IMC, that is.
Mike Lehman

Soderstrom, Doug wrote:

> Dear Staff:
> 
> In regards to my article posted on your web site (_The Mindless 
> American: A Tragedy In The Making_), it was brought to my attention that 
> there was an error in the article.
> 
> Therefore, if, in your judgment, it would be the appropriate thing to 
> do, I would appreciate it if you would consider posting this statement 
> next to the article.
> 
> "Recently, it was brought to my attention that Robert Fisk, the renown 
> reporter of_ The Independent_, was not banned from entering the United 
> States.  Such was no more than an unfortunate rumor multiplied many 
> times over on the internet.  If I had pursued the information a bit more 
> diligently, I would have realized that Mr. Fisk had not been banned from 
> entering the United States, but was, in fact, simply detained from 
> entering the U.S., at that particular moment in time, due to the 
> solitary fact that Mr. Fisk did not have a "biometric passport," which 
> is now required of all citizens from nations like that of the UK on a 
> visa waiver program.  For that mistake I offer a sincere apology first 
> of all to Mr. Fisk, for whom I have the greatest degree of respect as an 
> investigative journalist, and secondly to those who so diligently took 
> the time to read my article........ all in order that I_ as an 
> undoubtedly fallible human being_ might continue to do my best to tell 
> "the truth" the best that I can."
> 
> Thank you very much,
> 
> Doug Soderstrom