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Re: NY Daily News sued over “Manhattan Madam” photo errors

vernongetzler123 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:34:00 -0000

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Re: Technology breeds ambitious reporting

craigspva3 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:06:14 -0000

Interesting post. I have made a twitter post about this. Others no doubt will like it like I did.

Re: Technology is incredible

swingtrading — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:35:17 -0000

Nice one. I have stumbled and twittered this for my friends. Others no doubt will like it like I did.

Re: Apology

devika_melora — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:33:55 -0000

I can't help but wonder exactly how much fact-checking was done here. I would think that any sensible person, especially a reporter, who hears such an outlandish claim would do a LOT of research to verify the story. And then it took them 2.5 years to publish an apology? I wonder if the funeral home finally contacted them after they discovered why people stopped using their services.

Re: Sterilize ‘em all! (If they fit this specific criteria)

Harry — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:31:07 -0000

It should read: ...these specific criteria, or this specific criterion.

Re: Sorry for calling you an “evil terrorist”

viclogic — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:54:44 -0000

He had been jailed and convicted under Section 58? But Mr. Patel is innocently having those documents? So then a suspect, even though convicted, cannot yet be proven a guilty. It's nice that the Sun admitted that error and Mr. Patel has been cleared-out. But still, media should take a great responsibility in providing people with just information. Sometimes errors cannot be corrected without a great wound.

Re: UPDATED: Harvard math prof Dr. Shing-Tung Yau claims New Yorker story defamed him

swingtrading2 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:19:33 -0000

Insightful read. I have stumbled and twittered this for my friends. Others no doubt will like it like I did.

Re: NYT public editor addresses errors made in Cronkite article; some basic advice for preventing errors

jennifer104 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:58:29 -0000

Does “intellectual heft” in reporting compensate for inaccurate reporting?
Absolutely not. Your job as a reporter is to report the facts. If you can't get that right, then you should consider another line of work.

Re: Boxer loses, bursts into teats

Frank — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:50:32 -0000

Two r's in morron.

Re: Speed versus accuracy in journalism: towards a new debate

CraigSilverman — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:43:38 -0000

Thanks for the comment, Jeff. I did a strikethrough on that "always" in the absolute sentence. Nice catch. I can just imagine some of my favorite copy editors lashing me for that one. I'm happy you caught it.

And I hadn't seen Denton's comment, which is very interesting.

Re: Speed versus accuracy in journalism: towards a new debate

CraigSilverman — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:33:43 -0000

Thanks for your comment. I don't think we disagree at all, and your point is valid. For your scenario, my post is suggesting that the reporter and editor should think about whether or not it's essential that the story be published without that additional information. Is speed really important for that specific story, or would it be okay to wait for the callback? It's about having that conversation and making a conscious decision.

Re: Speed versus accuracy in journalism: towards a new debate

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:08:49 -0000

It's not that I disagree, but practically speaking, it can take hours and hours to get a return call for a comment or quote. Sometimes you have to go with what you have and update with additional information later. It's particularly true in the political world, where responses can be slow in coming. With a deadline looming and still no return call or email, what does one do? Tell the boss to "hold the presses"? In real-life journalism, the ideal sometimes collides with the practical and the necessity.

Re: Speed versus accuracy in journalism: towards a new debate

jeffjarvis — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:48:56 -0000

Really good piece, Craig. (Thanks for the hat tips).

If I were a copy editor laboring over and delaying this, I'd be amusing myself over your twitterable sentence (which I did, indeed, tweet):

"Accuracy is not always an absolute." Hmm. Isn't an absolute always an absolute? Thus if it's not always an absolute it's never an absolute? Just asking.....

See also Nick Denton saying flat out that they don't fact-check before publishing: “We aim to get the truth over time. The verification model is post-publication rather than pre-publication. Our readers correct us and we apologize and we change it. We don’t have time to check it all before.”

http://www.observer.com/2009/media/asme-confere...

Re: A look at the role of the ombudsman

robynmellon — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:59:43 -0000

i ned hoppy with the error

Re: Creative correction

Name — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:32:03 -0000

Someone must have been a big fan of BJ and the Bear.

Re: Boxer loses, bursts into teats

doug438 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:35:43 -0000

what is teats?

Re: Boxer loses, bursts into teats

Cliffh — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:04:36 -0000

I am a friend of Chris this fight meant alot to him he worked very hard you insensitive morons need to back off

Re: Crunks 2008: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections

nicholasro — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:08:24 -0000

did you just start taking advertising? http://skitch.com/nicholasr/nnrh2/advertising-r... I love the site and I imagine that it is tricky to be a website that tracks errors in print to make sure to not have any errors. But, directly underneath two ads from google ads, you say, "This site doesn’t accept advertising."

I wouldn't have noticed if they weren't so close together and I don't mind. I offer this criticism solely in the spirit of collegial perfectionism.

Re: Tried in the press

James Taylor — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:09:25 -0000

They may well have been " convicted on the basis that they failed to exercise due diligence " - this does not alter the fact that they conned sports fans by selling fake signatures of Liverpool football stars.

Far too many fraudsters see selling fake autographs as a quick and easy way to make a killing with little chance of prosecution.

Both admitted to selling fakes. The echo should have stood firm.

Re: Boxer loses, bursts into teats

aliturnbull — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:45:01 -0000

Also check the guy's name - but for a double 'r' there is another breast joke in there waiting to escape...

Re: Boxer loses, bursts into teats

Blurgle — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:03:39 -0000

If it were any name but Arreola....

Re: Brooke Sheilds is not a doctor, but she played one on the Today Show

David — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:40:20 -0000

By the way, Sept. 24 was a Thursday, not a Wednesday.

Re: Brooke Sheilds is not a doctor, but she played one on the Today Show

David — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:05:04 -0000

Was her name misspelled by NBC -- as it is in your headline?

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Re: Reuters corrects story about “German Lego giraffe penis”

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