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What happens when substacks make mistakes?
by nojito 6y ago
What happens when substacks make mistakes?
- apsec112 6y agoSomeone starts a competing Substack and steals their subscribers. It's much harder to do that with the NYT and New Yorker, which are big institutions with all kinds of privileges and insider access.
- fullshark 6y agoSometimes they correct it in a tweet or follow up substack and no one reads that one, the previous one confirming their biases was much more entertaining.
- spamizbad 6y agoDoesn't matter because most of substack isn't really journalism - it's punditry and navel-gazing. It's basically disrupting the op-ed page. And op-eds, even in NYT, have been full of factual errors across the entire political spectrum of personalities who write for it.
- jkhdigital 6y agoNobody cares, because Substack isn’t treated as the “paper of record”. The problem is not that NYT etc. needs to be perfect, but that these news outlets are privileged sources that are used in crafting “evidence-based” arguments about all sorts of important things (but especially public policy).
- fsh 6y agoI would say that on hn it very much is treated as such.
- yoz-y 6y agoWhen "a" substack who knows, from the TFA: > Purely for comparative purposes, a two-bullet rundown of my own corrections policy: > If a reader points out anything untrue or unfair, I (i) pay out a bounty, (ii) make in-line and end-note edits to the original, (iii) update my public corrections log > If the mistake is serious, I also publish reflections on where things broke down and what I’m doing to limit future risk (example) > [...]