Throughout the course of the nearly two years we have owned this newspaper we’ve promised to you that when we get something wrong we’ll correct it — and do so as quickly as possible. Part of building a trusting relationship with you, our readers, depends upon us letting you know when we’ve messed up and correcting ourselves. Our job is incredibly public – and so are our errors, which are certain to happen because we’re human.

That commonly accepted journalistic code of ethics appl...