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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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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