Subject: media inquiry From: "Peter M. Heimlich" <pmh@medfraud.info> Date: 3/11/2012 10:48 AM To: elizabeth@svpi.

org Elizabeth Benedict Communications Director Social Venture Partners Dear Ms. Benedict, Please see below my signature for an inquiry I e-mailed yesterday to Tom Callinan via his University of Cincinnati (UC) e-mail address re: an item I'm reporting on my blog. This morning I came across his LinkedIn bio and it appears he's no longer at the university, but is now affiliated with your company: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomcallinan I'm hoping to hear from him by the end of the day tomorrow so I can go to print Tuesday. I'm not sure if he's checking e-mails to his UC address, so would you please forward this to him? Thanks for your assistance and I'd appreciate confirmation that you've sent this to him. Sincerely, Peter M. Heimlich Atlanta ph: (208)474-7283 website: Medfraud blog: The Sidebar On 3/10/12, Peter M. Heimlich wrote to thomas.callinan@uc.edu: Thomas Callinan McMicken Professor of Journalism University of Cincinnati Dear Professor Callinan, Per Enquirer Posts, Then Censors, Anti-Santorum Photos by Ben Kaufman in yesterday's Cincinnati CityBeat, on my blog I've been reporting about your former employer's failure to inform readers that alterations were made to a March 5 online article by reporter Paul Kostyu. Please take a look: http://bit.ly/yCYNxn I'm reporting a follow-up and would appreciate your answers to a pair of quick questions. Dating from Spring 2006, you'll recall the Enquirer's "Grandma in Iraq" blog and the subsequent controversy which you addressed on your Enquirer blog, "Letters from the Editor." (Your blog appears to have been deleted from the Enquirer's servers, but I have copies.) In an April 12, 2006 item, you attributed Gertrude Stein's quote "There's no there there" to novelist Gunter Grass, an error that was promptly brought to your attention by a commenter. Here's a pdf of that exchange: http://scr.bi/ycP9Kn According to an archived version of your item via The Wayback Machine, "Gunter Grass" was replaced with "Gertrude Stein" without any notification of the fix: http://bit.ly/zLNFmk See attached screen shot. 1) In hindsight, do you think Enquirer readers should have been informed about that correction? If so, what sort of notification would have been appropriate? 2) Re: the concerns described in yesterday's CityBeat article, do you think the Enquirer should notify readers of the changes made to Mr. Kostyu's story? If so, what sort of notification would be appropriate? Thanks for your consideration and please feel free to include any other comments. If you can send me your answers by end of the day Monday, March 12, that would be appreciated, but if you require more time, please let me know and I'll do my best to accommodate your schedule. Sincerely, Peter M. Heimlich Atlanta ph: (208)474-7283 website: Medfraud blog: The Sidebar cc: Ben Kaufman, Cincinnati CityBeat