L.A. Times Demonstrates why They are Losing Readership

...and they are being highly dishonest about it. Patterico has the lowdown on the L.A. Times playing not so nice games and correcting themselves without a proper correction. The offending paragraph deals with President Bush's SCOTUS canadates:

They thought Rehnquist’s illness would force his retirement, and they intended to move quickly to replace the conservative chief justice with a reliably conservative federal appeals court judge. The leading candidates were all white men.

Other than being a flat out lie (there's at least two hispanic people I can think of under concideration), isn't that statement kinda...well, racist? At any rate, they apparently corrected themselves on the online article:

They thought Rehnquist’s illness would force his retirement, and they intended to move quickly to replace the conservative chief justice with a reliably conservative federal appeals court judge. The leading candidates were all men.

Cute...and they wonder why people don't read newspapers anymore. Read the whole thing for the in depth analysis.