Last week was a terrible one for Jon Harris, a librarian at the
North Canton Public Library in Ohio. On Thursday he was smoking
a cigarette on his front porch when a man walked up, pulled a
gun, and demanded Harris hand over his money and laptop.  On
Saturday he and his girlfriend arrived home to find all of the
lights on. Soon, a man ran out the front door holding several of
their belongings.  Harris chased the robber down a side street.
The thief turned around, pulled a gun and fired a shot at
Harris, who ducked and sought cover.  Yeah, awful week.  Then
things got a bit worse thanks to a news brief about the Saturday
incident published in the Akron Beacon Journal. A serious error
in that article led Harris to spend time tracking down someone
at the paper to speak to, and ultimately resulted in a Wednesday
correction, which Harris e-mailed to me for publication on my
blog. The subject line of his e-mail was, “Not really
noteworthy, but at least the newspaper isn’t charging me with
attempted homicide anymore