Quote from UPI:
(This item was corrected July 8, 2009, to fix the name of the hospital where Obama was born. The original item incorrectly identified the facility as Queen's Hospital, an error made by the writer.)
The liink, which you neglected to post, still works: Sen. Barack Obama, Democrat of Illinois
An unattributed statement that the UPI acknowledges was made by the writer -- not the subject of the article. The same applies to the student author who wrote about Maya Soetoro in the Ed School newsletter that's the subject of this thread. The statement is unattributed, so it is the statement of the writer, not the person being interviewed. Any veteran copy editor would get a chuckle out of BP2's assertion that information presented in a published interview is automatically a statement by the subject. There are ways to reword what a subject says, without using quotation marks, but even if stated in the writer's own words, unless it's attributed -- with qualifiers such as "Maya Soetoro says," "she remembers that," "she recalls," etc. -- it is never assumed to be a statement of the subject. Since Maya didn't say it, she has no need to retract it. And I don't think anyone but the most obsessive are losing any sleep about the publication's lack of retraction. It was a mistake made by a student in an obscure publication almost five years ago.