This is a cock-up, not a conspiracy: it speaks to the WSJ having a crap website,
and not to any conscious attempt to downplay its mistakes. But if you do a search
for Susan Pulliam’s erroneous
front-page article on Merrill Lynch, the
search result has no correction appended. Which is weird, since a
different version of the story on the WSJ website does have a correction
appended.
Even that version, however, puts the correction at the bottom, with just a
simple note saying "see Corrections & Amplifications item below"
at the top. It would be better if the WSJ followed the lead of Factiva, which
puts the correction at the top, and then follows it with the original article.