newspaper corrections
What you saw in today’s newspapers:
And what you can expect in tomorrow’s newspapers:
It is the policy of newspapers all over to correct all errors of fact.
One person survived an explosion in a coal mine in West Virginia. A story on the front page gave an inaccurate number.
Even links to the original stories published in both the Tribune and Times have been wiped from their websites. The original AP story: Miners Found Alive
Eric Deggans says he’ll look into Journalism’s First Big Blunder of 2006.
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January 4th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
Paperless newspapers will take care of this. You’ll unfold a fabric screen attuned to a specific service (say the Trib), and if there’s a major change in circumstances, the provider will simply rebroadcast the update. At Tampa Rail for several months now I’ve gotten into the habit of publishing edit updates (I make the edit and then blog about it on the same entry - this is a highly compatible system with the loose style of news and commentary represented by blogging. Everyone can read what I changed, just like Wikepedia). My Battle Blog product is going to report edits automatically soon, and I expect WordPress and all the others to eventually follow. Today’s newspapers just can’t do this.
January 4th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
“Dewey Wins!”
January 4th, 2006 at 5:48 pm
Amazing how everyone wants to blame the media for getting this wrong when THEY got their info from OFFICIALS who were supposed to know what was going on! Doubt any lawsuits will stick from this but somebody in WVA is gonna lose their job. All it really did to newspapers is make this morning’s editions instantly obsolete, just like the 9/11/01.
January 4th, 2006 at 11:14 pm
It was actually DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.
This whole miner story is one of the saddest things I’ve seen in a long while. I was flipping between Fox News and the Orange Bowl around 12:45 am last night and Giraldo was at the site. People were cheering and screaming for joy. My wife woke up the noise was so loud. She was very relieved to learn the men were ok (save one). Then when we woke up we learned they had all died (save one). What a tragedy. Heartfelt sorrow for all the families…
January 5th, 2006 at 7:50 am
Besides Deegans’ column this morning, the only Florida newspaper I’ve noted that has commented on it’s handling was the Lakeland Ledger. I excerpted Executive Editor Skip Perez’s piece in the blog this AM, in which he explained what happened on his end.
Just terrible, terrible timing.