From the monthly archives:

September 2009

People think the press gets a lot wrong. Maybe they’re right.

September 15, 2009

Americans trust the news media less than ever: “Just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the facts straight, while 63% say that news stories are often inaccurate,” according to the latest results from the Pew Research Center released this week. That represents a drop of 10 percentage points from 2007, when 53% [...]

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Why do we bother to correct errors?

September 9, 2009

In a recent Washington Post column, the eminent editor and essayist Michael Kinsley argued that newspapers overdo it when it comes to correcting small errors. Kinsley mocks the New York Times for its attention to correcting such trivia as the name of a company called Voxox (it had been printed as “Vovox”) or that of [...]

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Welcome to MediaBugs — getting started

September 4, 2009

Welcome to the MediaBugs blog! This is where we’ll be offering updates on the MediaBugs project, a winner of the 2009 round of the Knight News Challenge.
MediaBugs will be a place on the Web where people can bring errors and problems they’ve found in media coverage in their community, and try to get them fixed. [...]

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