> They both corrected the articles after 3 hours Because they got caught. How long would those articles have remained up if nobody else had done the journalist

> They both corrected the articles after 3 hours Because they got caught. How long would those articles have remained up if nobody else had done the journalists' investigation jobs for them and then reported the incorrect story? Would the journalists who "broke" the story ever have bothered to verify it themselves? Would they have issued a correction at all if it didn't quickly become public knowledge that the story was fake?