[adolph]

Your claim:

> The article contradicts your claim "reported and quietly fixed days later without ever really owning up to it".

It doesn't contradict the initial claim since the article to which you linked is from a year later. What you would need to do is establish the historical chronology of newspaper articles that did not report police lies and then quietly correct the record days later. Otherwise your counterclaim is very weak.

> Media reported what was established at the time

News media do not report what is established at any time. What is established is by nature not news. The presence of claims in the media are then used to convince people of what information is established as true. By uncritically repeating lies news media has been fanning conflict since before the sinking of the Maine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_(1889)