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This is something you don’t see a lot in journalism nowadays. Multiple publications have been caught in multiple provable lies or inaccuracies over the last few
by dmitrygr 8mo ago
This is something you don’t see a lot in journalism nowadays. Multiple publications have been caught in multiple provable lies or inaccuracies over the last few years, and this is the first official retraction I’ve seen. I tip my hat to the ars team.
- giobox 8mo agoThere are official retractions in reputable publications almost every day. Lots of major publications have an entire section of their website devoted to it: https://www.nytimes.com/section/corrections https://www.nytimes.com/section/corrections https://www.wsj.com/news/types/corrections https://www.wsj.com/news/types/corrections etc etc. Many of them include the retraction or correction in the following print edition, if they have one, as well.
- hed 8mo agoExactly. And they don’t just rip down the old article but annotate it with a disclaimer that an earlier version said XXX
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- rsynnott 8mo ago... This is the first official retraction you've seen? Eh? All proper newspapers do them fairly regularly.