3 ms·
the talk missing here: accountability. reporters can screw up. like everyone else. heck in the IT security industry we have a mantra that you should not punish
by gcb0 9y ago
the talk missing here: accountability.
reporters can screw up. like everyone else. heck in the IT security industry we have a mantra that you should not punish mistakes, because over time that makes people more prone to hide mistakes instead of disclosing.
why isn't journalism the same? in the past they would publish erratas and mea culpas.
now, they get the clicks, ad revenue, and on to the next "mistake".
- matt4077 9y ago"In the past"? I see multiple corrections per week, sometimes daily. They've started documenting even minor mistakes such as misspelled names. And mistakes that actually matter do have consequences, and not of the "don't punish" variety. See the recent firing of two CNN producers for publishing a story they later had to retract (something about some Trump associate's business dealings in Malta, I believe)
- TeMPOraL 9y ago> why isn't journalism the same? in the past they would publish erratas and mea culpas. They still do. But it doesn't matter (and I don't think it ever mattered) - if you lie on the first page, and next week put an errata on the second page in small print, that correction isn't doing anything. Most people will not read it anyway, and by the time it's printed, the damage to readers' cognition is already done.