Is Bevan Shields' acknowledgement of error too little too late?

And is Peter Costello's role at Nine Entertainment the bigger problem?

Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, Bevan Shields, has finally deigned to publicly acknowledge the mistakes he and his newspaper made in their initial coverage of the recent industrial action at NSW Rail.

At 5.17 on Friday March 4—eleven days after the event and at a time that many journalists recognise as the preferred period in which politicians relea…