The Post-Dispatch ran a correction this morning that misled one reader.  The correction: “Anthony Shahid, who attended a ceremony in St. Louis honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was misidentified in a photo caption in Tuesday’s main news section.”  That correction was intended to correct a misspelling of  Shahid’s name.

But the original words under the picture had said:  St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay (in front on right) waits to speak Monday as protesters, including Anthony Sahaid  (misspelled) dressed in a Ku Klux Klan outfit, chant “Slay must go” during a ceremony held to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Old Courthouse downtown. Slay has drawn fire for demoting Fire Chief Sherman George (in front of Sahaid).  (Misspelled.)”The reader called me to say that  Shahid wasn’t misidentified, he indeed was the man who was dressed in a Ku Klux Klan outfit.

The reader is right.  Easy to understand that confusion.  “Misidentified” was the wrong word to use in the correction.  His name was misspelled.