One would think that with the County winning a $45 million settlement from their lawsuit against the Mercer actuaries, there would at least be a little apology squeaking out from the editors down at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

Don’t hold your breath.

The Journal-Sentinel shares some damning guilt in what happened back in 2001.

No one in the printed media has ever taken the time to look at the information that Supervisors were given. It’s much easier to print sensationalism. It’s much easier to make claims that Supervisors didn’t read the information they were given than to actually cite the lines they were supposed to read. The reason? Those lines don’t exist. The Journal-Sentinel did a hatchet job several years ago in order to sell newspapers; not to expose the truth. Will this lawsuit, where Mercer admits nothing and the County settles for a fraction of what was lost result in Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker admitting that he lied when he smeared the Democrats in County Government in order to further his own craven lust for power?

Of course not.

Will it result in an apology editorial from the Journal-Sentinel to those removed from office due to Walker’s allegations?

Let’s not hold our breath.