Have any of you heard of setrecs? Apparently it is a word used by newspapers that refers to setting the record straight, such as Newsweek recently did. It is an acronym, of sorts. setting the record straight.
Very interesting, Kalleh. I found only 85 google hits, and that's few enough to go through them individually, remove duplicates and irrelevancies, and find the earliest.
Follow-up: That's one helluva catch you made, Kalleh! Basically, there are only four examples, all from the world of newspaper publishing.
The earliest is April 1996 (Lee R. Jett), in-house newsletter of San Jose Mercury News.
Jett's article was not copied elsewhere on the web. The term spread a bit on the web when it was used in three later articles in the Miami Herald, and the articles were copied in other websites (mostly of the press):
