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Bloomberg’s poll (PDF), which the story was based on, asked the following (bottom of page five): “Do you think the spill proves off-shore drilling is just too dangerous and should be banned in U.S. waters, or was this a freak accident and offshore drilling can be made safer and... Read more
Diaspora, an open-source project to create a federated system for social networking, raised just over $200,000 through Kickstarter, a crowdfunding platform. Rosen stated the project raised $20,000. Read more
Why didn't this story identify the two people with whom the reporter spoke at the scene of the protest? Here's the segment in question: Protesters in San Francisco were separated by metal barricades and lines of police. It was a loud, but peaceful demonstration. "I’m outraged about... Read more
The article says: “Hotplate,” SFJazz’s monthly concert series at the Amnesia Lounge, a hip Mission club, asks local artists and groups like Joe Bagale, Wil Blades and Le Jazz Hot to reinterpret the work of jazz greats, including Sun Ra, Jimmy Smith and Django Reinhardt. The... Read more
Author's name is spelled wrong. Should be McClelland. They left the last c out. Read more
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Today we offer a cornucopia of newness for you: Hard to Get a Fix is the first of what we plan as a regular series of reports on the error reporting and correction practices of Bay Area media organizations. You can read its findings here, and also read our recommendations for best practices in error [...]
Journal’s Sarb-Ox goof, Kos’s flawed polls: New kinds of errors demand new kinds of corrections
Once upon a time in journalism, an error was a mistake in a story, and a correction was a notice published after the fact fixing the error. This kind of errror and correction still exists, but in the new world of news the error/correction cycle keeps mutating into interesting new forms. Consider these two recent [...]
The Wall Street Journal: Cavalier about corrections?
Last week I wrote about my fruitless quest to alert the Wall Street Journal to a mistake it had made in a book review — misspelling the name of the author the piece mainly focused on. Yesterday I made one final effort to close this loop; I emailed the book review’s author, Philip Delves Broughton. [...]