Commentary An interesting article at the RealClearPolitics website by J. Peder Zane recently explained “Why Newspapers Refuse to Correct Errors.” In case you’re a bit pressed for time and don’t want to look it up for yourself, I’ll give you the Reader’s Digest Condensed Books version in a single word. (Spoiler alert!) The word is “narrative.” “Increasingly,” writes Zane, “readers expect their favored news sources to advance their favored narrative, the facts be damned. And many news outlets, beset by immense economic challenges, seem happy to satisfy them to stay afloat.” The most egregious recent example of narrative-led misreporting by the media is, of course, the allegation that members of the Trump administration, possibly including President Donald Trump himself, “colluded” with the Russians in order to win the 2016 election. Reporters from The New York Times and The Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting to this effect—reporting what …