Corrections

The following correction is reprinted from Workers Vanguard No. 946, 6 November. The photo in question also appeared in “Turmoil in Iran” (SC No. 162, Fall 2009):

“A photo used in the article ‘Down With the Clerical Regime! No Support to “Reform” Mullahs!’ (WV No. 939, 3 July) was incorrectly identified as an ‘Iranian woman being prepared for execution by stoning, 2004.’ While the image illustrates the horror often visited upon women in Iran by the theocratic regime, it has been brought to our attention by a subscriber that the picture, which we also incorrectly credited to Amnesty International, was a still from the 1994 Dutch film De Steen (The Stone).

“In investigating how we ended up violating our stringent standards on photo verification and fact-checking in running this image, we learned that it had been used in 2007 by right-wing ideologue David Horowitz. As someone commented at the time on the liberal blog ‘Sadly, No!’: ‘Doesn't anyone on the right source check? I said it before and now I'll say it again...Sweet Zombie Jesus, that just DUMB!!’ Us, too. We apologize to our readers for the error.”

Also in SC No. 162, in the article “Swine Flu Ravages Aboriginal Population,” a photo caption wrongly stated that a young Australian Aboriginal girl died of swine flu. In fact, the cause of death is not known. What is known is that she was repeatedly turned away from hospital, “neglected,” as her grieving mother said, because “she was a little black girl.”