The Chronicle is running an AP story with the following headline:
Here’s the lede:
Allowing another Republican candidate to replace former Rep. Tom DeLay on the November ballot would promote voters’ interest by giving them a choice, GOP attorneys argued today to a federal appeals court.
In short, the headline doesn’t match the story. Republicans were arguing that the party should be allowed to replace DeLay on the ballot.
The erroneous headline must have been supplied by the AP, because other state newspapers ran with it. One would have thought an editor at the Chronicle might have caught the error, though, given the location of the district.
UPDATE (07-27-2006): Cheers to KPRC-2 for getting the headline right on their newly redesigned site, and cheers to the KHOU news blog for getting it right. Chron.com has not bothered to correct its erroneous headline.
UPDATE (07-27-2006, 2:40 pm): The Chronicle finally corrected the headline.
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