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Introduction to the Paperback Edition xi
Foreword xxv
Introduction 1
Statement of Accuracy 13
Chapter 1 A Brief History of Media Accuracy and Errors 15
Oral News 18
Written News 18
Birth of the Newspaper: The Seventeenth-Century Press 21
The Eighteenth Century and the Fourth Estate 25
The Nineteenth Century: From Excess and Error to Responsibility 28
Chapter 2 Mass Media: Born of a Big Lie 30
Hearst, Pulitzer, and Sulzberger: A Battle for the Soul of Journalism 39
The Twentieth Century: Accuracy as Code 45
Chapter 3 Regrets, More Than a Few 49
"Dewey Defeats Truman" 49
A Theory of Error 54
Chapter 4 The Truth About Media Errors 65
Print Media Errors 65
Broadcast Errors 70
Uncorrected Errors 76
The Necessity of Error (No, really) 82
The Corrections: Multiple Offenses 87
Chapter 5 Common Errors 91
Names and Titles 93
The Corrections: Names and Titles 98
Typos 102
The Corrections: Typos 107
Numbers 117
The Corrections: Fuzzy Numbers 128
Chapter 6 Unreliable Sources and Malicious Reporters 138
Unreliable Sources 139
Malicious Reporters 149
The Lesson Not Learned 162
Chapter 7 Obiticide: Death by Media 166
Planned Obiticide 175
Obiticide and the Average Citizen 179
The Corrections 181
Chapter 8 Mistakes and the Mistaken 186
The Mobster and the Clown 188
The Terrorist 194
Doctors, Lawyers, and the Accused 197
Tainted Images 200
The Corrections 203
Misidentifications and Personal Errors 203
Photo Misidentifications 208
Chapter 9 Errors Heard Round the World 213
The Twenty-Four-Hour Broken Telephone 216
Too Incredible Not to Report 219
Chapter 10 The Trouble withCorrections 225
Corrections: A Brief History 227
Birth of the Modern Correction 229
Online Corrections 233
Broadcast Corrections 235
The Failure of Corrections 237
The Art of Correction 243
The Corrections: Strange and Sublime 249
So Sorry: Remarkable Apologies 258
Chapter 11 The Disappearance of Newspaper Proofreading 265
"Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu" 266
The Demise of Newspaper Proofreaders 268
Chapter 12 The Birth (and Slow Death) of Magazine Fact Checking 275
Anatomy of the Checker 279
Everybody Has a System 284
Death by a Thousand Cuts 286
Chapter 13 Watching the Detectives: The Rise of External Fact Checking 293
Distributed Fact Checking: RatherGate 296
Media-Monitoring Organizations 305
Chapter 14 The Big Newspaper in the Sky 310
Accuracy Training 313
Ombudsmen as Error Trackers 315
Instant Source Surveys 316
The Corrections 317
Updates and Mistakes 317
Online Corrections 318
Fact Checking and Plagiarism Detection 321
Embracing the Lighter Side of Accuracy 323
For Readers 326
How to Request a Correction 326
Ensuring Accuracy When Interviewed 328
The Way Forward 328
Afterword 332
Acknowledgments 336
Notes 338
Index 358
Error Report Form 368
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reviewed Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech on June 24, 2012
Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech
"To err is human; to forgive, divine."
Mass media, comprised and operated by people, will always be prone to mistakes. The issue here is how media practitioners mitigate the occurrence of these errors before it hits the press, and how they acknowledge it when it gets printed/published.
Like what Craig Silverman says in the book, "In a time of unprecedented news options for consumers, they will inevitably flock toward the sources they feel are the most trustworthy, the most accurate."
Credibility may be lessened when news outlets own up to its mistakes, but it would prove to be just a minor "drop" when it strives for accuracy in its past and present outputs. Admission and correction of mistakes actually build up a news outlet's stock as a trustworthy and accurate source.
On the other hand, people can only forgive to an extent. Readers will feel "betrayed" when news outlets continue to make errors, thinking that readers would forgive them anyway after posting a correction. When there are no processes in place to lessen the occurrence of mistakes, readers get turned off, then they start distrusting news sources. This, in turn, would slowly destroy the news industry, until the role of the "Fourth Estate" means nothing anymore.
Mr. Silverman is truly passionate in his mission to have regular fact-checking and other accuracy procedures implemented across all forms of mass media. He is also humble enough to share his past failings in a "litany of his own incompetence" in the Afterword.
This book was a nice "pep talk" before I become a media practitioner myself in a few days.
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