From: Isabel Maxwell To: "Ian Max Max (E-mail)" Subject: FW: Polly Sprenger Guardian Article of March 6th. --- VICTORY" in in II Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 19:51:19 +0000 VICTORYm From: [mailto: Original Message Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 9:15 AM To: Isabel Maxwell Subject: Re: Polly Sprenger Guardian Article of March 6th. Ms Maxwell I'll be frank. We let our standards slip in the piece "Maxwell-led software firm accused of fraud." Aside from any factual innaccuracies, I personally do not like guilt-by-association pieces and I regret the fact that this slipped through the net. Polly has now left the Guardian and so I have been unable to discuss the article with her. But in anycase, alarm bells should have gone off amongst our desk editors here. The Guardian does have a policy of putting its hand up when we get things wrong and, to this end, we do run a daily "Corrections and Clarifications" column, as a number of US papers do. You are probably aware that we are running a correction relating to your brother Kevin in tomorrow's paper. I have discussed the matter with Ian Mayes, our Readers' Editor, who agrees that we should also offer you a correction and apology on this matter. Because of the complexity of the matter, it is going to take a little while to the wording right, and so I'd be grateful if you could bear with us until Monday,. By then I will be in a position to send you the proposed wording. In the meantime, on a personal note, I apologise for the hurt caused. EFTA00578505