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re: Obituary for Journalism - Washington Post story gets 15 corrections
Posted on 8/8/19 at 1:34 pm to cleeveclever
Posted on 8/8/19 at 1:34 pm to cleeveclever
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At least they fessed up to the errors. In today's world, they easily could have let it ride and never heard another word about it. Fact checking is a lost art.
They usually fess up or issue corrections, but they do it days after and they just edit the same article that's already buried in their archives. They do this so they can claim they corrected it, but by that point the false narrative the original article portrayed is already considered the correct story.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 1:36 pm to upgrayedd
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but by that point the false narrative the original article portrayed is already considered the correct story.
Winner here!
See:
Hands up, don't shoot.
Alton Sterling was a good boy.
Etc.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 1:43 pm to TheHarahanian
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The writer practically had to make the story up to have that many errors in it.
Yet oddly enough, if it had, in fact, been made up it would have NO errors.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 2:19 pm to jbgleason
I can only hope there is one more unemployed “journalist” today. How in the hell do you get that much wrong? You have to intentionally try to get that much wrong.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 2:22 pm to jbgleason
Muslims brutalized Africans more than Christians. why no articles on that.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 2:30 pm to jbgleason
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"The number of children Freeman had with his second wife, Rebecca, was eight, not 10."
Serious question? Is there a rule on when to use the number and when to spell the number? Its a slight pet peeve, but I like consistency. Either spell out the numbers or put the actual number. Don't just willy nilly do either one as the time comes to insert a number.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 2:36 pm to OweO
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Is there a rule on when to use the number and when to spell the number
Hey Oweo. I'm pretty sure there is, but I do not know what it is. Personally I will usually spell out single digits or 10. I'm not going to spell out 378.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 2:38 pm to stapuffmarshy
So you mean since print news was invented
Posted on 8/8/19 at 2:43 pm to LCA131
According to my technical writing instructor, the number is 13. You can go up to twelve.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 5:17 pm to Darth_Vader
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Exactly when do you think News corporations were non-profits
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So you mean since print news was invented
Every news organization I worked out would have KILLED a sales manager or advertising executive if they actually came near our newsrooms.
So I don't think you understand how it actually worked in the past.
You may think you did or do, but you don't.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 5:48 pm to alajones
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According to my technical writing instructor, the number is 13. You can go up to twelve.
It is completely subjective. My guy says eleventeen.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 5:51 pm to BR Tiger
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How in the hell do you get that much wrong?
When your goal isn't reporting the news, but instead is pushing a political agenda.
See: All media in 2019.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 5:57 pm to stapuffmarshy
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When the news became for-profit is when journalism died.
What?
It's always been for profit
It died because it became full of ideologues and is nothing more than yellow journalism.
Click bait overruled selling subscriptions. You're not getting news, you're getting an opinion of some 25 year old woman who's paid 35k a year to write shitty articles then get clicks via social media.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 6:03 pm to RogerTheShrubber
The news has always been full of shite. The idea that there was ever such a thing a journalistic integrity is a myth.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 6:05 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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The news has always been full of shite. The idea that there was ever such a thing a journalistic integrity is a myth.
While true, it actually attracted real journalists at one time. It's a dead industry.
Posted on 8/8/19 at 6:05 pm to RogerTheShrubber
At least we still have Chris Nakamoto
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