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> Where's the accountability in a correction? Traditional media has always buried their corrections such that only a handful of readers or viewers actually see
by speedplane 7y ago
> Where's the accountability in a correction? Traditional media has always buried their corrections such that only a handful of readers or viewers actually see them.
Correcting a mistake is by definition accountability. If there was no accountability, there would never be any correction, and anyone would be free to lie or be sloppy. One can definitely take issue with the way certain publications make corrections, but new media does not even attempt to do anything.