The Washington Post has finally added an Editor’s Note to all of its reporting on the Covington Catholic students at the March for Life in D.C. and they’ve deleted this tweet which erroneously stated that Native American activist Nathan Phillips fought in the Vietnam War:

The Post has issued an Editor’s Note about updates to its initial coverage of the Jan. 18 incident at the Lincoln Memorial: https://t.co/rhzKZ1715K We’ve also deleted this Jan. 19 tweet in light of later developments. For more, see the Editor’s Note. pic.twitter.com/O7qCSnBMPO — The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 1, 2019

It only took them 6 weeks:

Democracy dies in six weeks of darkness. — Mo Mo Bo Bo Bananafana Fo Fo (@molratty) March 2, 2019

The story is also behind the paywall so people can’t read it:

I guess it's true what they say: Democracy Dies in Darkness:

Nothing on the @washingtonpost home page about the correction on the "Lincoln Memorial Incident". And the Editor's Note is behind the paywall.https://t.co/i7Qd8ljZpH pic.twitter.com/sCVqYDwhWZ — Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) March 1, 2019

Here it is in full:

Too late?

It's too late. You ruined a kid's life on purpose. — Pam D (@lifebythecreek) March 1, 2019

And we expect this had something to do with the multi-million dollar lawsuit:

Was this done as a result of some agreement with Sandmann's attorneys? — Robby Soave (@robbysoave) March 1, 2019

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Related:

Priorities! Matthew Dowd (who didn’t want to let Covington kids ‘off the hook’) wishes media would stop focusing on Jussie Smollett https://t.co/mVVzfDEqLz — Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 22, 2019

'Such a FRAUD’: Kirsten Powers ‘mea culpa’ thread on Covington and our ‘dangerously toxic culture’ has many tweeps rolling their eyes https://t.co/WV6oa5KUg5 — Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 19, 2019