Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free SpeechUnion Square + ORM, 10 sept 2010 - 517 páginas This look at careless journalism—from hilarious mistakes to egregious ethical lapses—is “chock-full of amusing historical anecdotes” (Publishers Weekly). Winner of the National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism We regret the error: it’s a phrase that appears in newspapers almost daily, the standard notice that something went terribly wrong in the reporting, editing, or printing of an article. From Craig Silverman, the proprietor of www.RegretTheError.com, one of the Internet’s most popular media-related websites, comes a collection of funny, shocking, and sometimes disturbing journalistic slip-ups and corrections. On display are all types of media inaccuracy—from typos to “fuzzy math” to “obiticide” (printing the obituary of a person very much alive and well) to complete and utter ethical lapses. While some of the errors can be laugh-out-loud funny, the book also serves as a sobering journey through the history of media mistakes (including the outrageous hoaxes that dominated newspapers during the circulation wars of the nineteenth century) and a serious muckraking investigation of contemporary journalism’s lack of accountability to the public. Regret the Error shines a spotlight on the media’s carelessness and the sometimes tragic and calamitous consequences of weak or non-existent fact checking. “Mixing humorous corrections taken from large and small newspapers alike, Silverman gives historical context to the current problems . . . and then proposes solutions for busy newsrooms.” —Variety |
Índice
Born of a Big | |
Regrets More Than a | |
The Truth About Media Errors | |
Common Errors | |
Unreliable Sources and Malicious Reporters | |
Death by Media | |
Errors Heard Round the World | |
The Trouble with Corrections | |
The Disappearance of Newspaper Proofreading | |
The Birth and Slow Death | |
The Big Newspaper in the | |
Instant Source Surveys | |
Index | |
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Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech Craig Silverman Vista previa restringida - 2007 |
Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech Craig Silverman Vista previa restringida - 2009 |
Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech Craig Silverman Vista de fragmentos - 2007 |
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