It also recommended that it should have the power to order the publication of apologies, corrections or retractions.
After assessment and investigation, those messages resulted in the publication of 3,655 corrections and clarifications, with 967 appearing in print and an additional 2,688 made online.
Great stuff, right?' While Franzen has, since the 2001 publication of The Corrections, been hailed for his extraordinary sentences and ability to capture the American zeitgeist, as well as reviled for ostensible arrogance and sexism (more on those in a bit), his fiction had never struck me as overtly self-referential.
All additional corrections need the approval of the Editor-in-Chief and would result in the publication of a correction that will be hyperlinked to the article.
About 300 emails responding to the publication of the correction and to my column arrived over the next few days.
I believe that it is the external ombudsman who should review my conduct of the inquiry leading to the publication of the correction to Emma Brockes's interview if those now dissatisfied with my resolution of the matter wish to pursue it.
After the publication of the correction on both the website and in the paper, a letter was dispatched to the Guardian from Mr Wolfowitz's office, protesting at the error and quoting, as the Guardian's retraction had done, Mr Wolfowitz's actual words at the Asia security conference in Singapore on May 31.
It could be given powers to award compensation, order the publication of apologies or corrections and grant injunctions.
"We are always looking for what characterises reliability, and the various characteristics of reliability, and what the [discussion about using the Mail] really focuses on is issues of fact-checking prior to publication and the issuing of corrections when articles are wrong," she said.
Resolution: The complaint was resolved when the PCC negotiated the publication of the following correction: "Rod Liddle's column of 25 January claimed that Robert Burns had lived and worked in the West Indies.
