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TOPIC: "Why You Can't Trust the Press" (Time 12/18/09)


Diamond

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"Why You Can't Trust the Press" (Time 12/18/09)
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This is funny.. in a serious way. LOL


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Why You Can't Trust the Press

Everybody makes mistakes. In journalism, a profession devoted to keeping people properly informed, those errors can be embarrassing. That's why a blog called Regret The Error keeps track of the fourth estate's follies. Freelance journalist Craig Silverman started the project in 2004 after reading the following correction from Lexington, Kent., Herald-Leader: "It has come to the editor's attention that the Herald-Leader neglected to cover the Civil Rights Movement. We regret the omission." Silverman has been tracking media-related corrections ever since. Regret the Error's annual "best of" list went up Dec. 16 (you can find it here). Reading it is like taking a stroll through the aftermath of a particularly amusing Jay Leno "Headlines" skit.

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There are mistakes of all kinds.. Some regrettable.. other regretfully so.  And some others still by design and later regretted by design as well, and those are the worst calculated kind, and those you cannot simply forgive.  We experienced the worst of it in 2008.


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Sanders, yes we did experience the worst of it EVER in 2008 and it's not getting much better.

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