[Intro]
One note cuts off unfinished
Feed refreshes twice
Every monitor in the room
Carries the correction

[Verse 1]
Correction banner over the story
White type pinned above the fold
Adrian says nine-ten changed the headline
Ben says the copy kept it longer
Mara stays beside the doorway
Everyone rereads the line
Chair wheels stop at assignment
Time gets checked against time

[Chorus]
The fact-check needs a fact-check
Stamp it, stack it, walk it back
Not one lie in one bad sentence
No one owned it end to end
The fact-check needs a fact-check
Every desk had partial clearance
No one owned the route

[Verse 2]
Here are the conflicting timestamps
Here is what each desk thought cleared
Legal held a source note pending
Standards logged the quote as checked
Copy had second confirmation
Graphics kept the earlier file
News desk moved on “confirmed enough”
Before the states aligned

[Chorus]
The fact-check needs a fact-check
Stamp it, stack it, walk it back
A correction is the record
Showing where the handoff failed
The fact-check needs a fact-check
No fabrication in the story
Just a failure in the check

[Break]

[Verse 3]
Different confirmation states
Moved desk to desk in rows
No final verification owner
No one closed the loop
Mara says, “Preserve the sequence”
Save the corrections log in place
Keep draft times and handoffs
Keep the notes from every desk
I rebuild the path in order
Till the failure takes shape

[Instrumental Break]

[Final Chorus]
The fact-check needs a fact-check
Stamp it, stack it, walk it back
Not one lie in one bad sentence
No one owned it end to end
The fact-check needs a fact-check
Line by line and desk by desk
If the workflow cleared the story
Name the owner of the check
The fact-check needs a fact-check
If the workflow moves the story
Show who reviewed the route

[Outro]
Correction banner still above us
Corrections log still open wide
One line fixed in public wording
No one calls the process clean

[End]