The Huffington Post has featured Levees.org’s story about how some in the media eschew basic fact-checks when doing post-flood stories about metro New Orleans.

Being featured means this important story will be displayed on the Media Homepage – and out there in front of the American people – for at least 2 more days.

The featured article is on the “It Wasn’t My Point” defense of some journalists when errors are pointed out in their pieces.

Strangely, in the world of journalism, I actually hear this defense: that if a mistake is not central to the point of a piece, then the mistake doesn’t matter.

Suppose I reviewed a restaurant a block from ground zero of the Twin Tower Collapses in New York City and wrote, “this cozy restaurant is one block from where the Girl Scouts commandeered jets and flew them into the World Trade Center.” Using the “it wasn’t my point defense,” I could claim the Girl Scout mistake doesn’t matter because it isn’t the point of my restaurant review.

Click here for featured article in the The Huffington Post.