Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech
- ISBN-10
- 1402765649
- ISBN-13
- 9781402765643
- Category
- Journalistic errors
- Pages
- 366
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
- Author
- Craig Silverman
Description
Winner of the National Press Club's Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism! From Craig Silverman, proprietor of www.RegretTheError.com, comes a lively journey through the history of media mistakes via a chronicle of funny, shocking, and often disturbing journalistic slip-ups. The errors—running the gamut from hilarious to tragic—include “Fuzzy Numbers” (when numbers and math undermine reporting) “Obiticide” (printing the obituary of a living person), and “Unintended Consequences” (typos and misidentifications that create a new, incorrect reality). While some of the errors are laugh-out-loud funny, the book also offers a serious investigation of contemporary journalism's lack of accountability to the public, and a rousing call to arms for all news organizations to mend their ways and reclaim the role of the press as honest voice of the people.
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- 2010-09-10
- 236 pages
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- Union Square + ORM