• Washington Post, Wednesday, April 17, 2013 4:07 PM

Definitely not The New York Post's week. First came Michael Wolff proclaiming the paper's demise was imminent, and now this story about how its editors are still trying to justify its initial claim of 12 dead in the Boston Marathon bombings. Erik Wemble doesn't spare the snark, either: If the Post is right, "it has a stupendous law-enforcement source, one that knows far more than the FBI, the Massachusetts governor, the Boston mayor and everyone else who has gone on record about the tragic events of yesterday afternoon," he writes, adding that the paper cites "a bystander quoted by another news outlet about something he wasn’t sure about."

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