AP News: Correction: Ports-Obama story

In case you missed it, the AP corrects it’s correction of Obama’s geography gaff:

Charleston, Savannah and Jacksonville are not Gulf ports. It wasn’t known if the president was suggesting they were. The AP should not have added the phrase in an effort to clarify his statement.A corrected version of the story is below:Obama plugs deeper Ga., SC, Fla. harbors on LenoObama uses Leno appearance to plug need for deeper harbors at Ga., SC and Fla. ports.

By RUSS BYNUM

via AP News: Correction: Ports-Obama story.

The AP reporter, Russ Bynum most certainly should not have changed the quote. The question we should all be asking — and we should all be questioning — is why did Bynum do it in the first place?