Comments on: People think the press gets a lot wrong. Maybe they’re right. http://mediabugs.org/blog/2009/09/15/media-inaccuracy/ Fix the news Tue, 23 Sep 2014 03:33:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: AP’s complicated Seinfeld episode — MediaBugs Blog http://mediabugs.org/blog/2009/09/15/media-inaccuracy/comment-page-1/#comment-3965 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 03:33:05 +0000 http://www.mediabugs.org/blog/?p=63#comment-3965 […] one. But rather than getting into whether it’s important for such errors to be corrected (see here and here for why we believe it is), a simple question instead: why does it have to be so hard to […]

]]> By: AP’s complicated Seinfeld episode « Mark Follman http://mediabugs.org/blog/2009/09/15/media-inaccuracy/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:37 +0000 http://www.mediabugs.org/blog/?p=63#comment-83 […] one. But rather than getting into whether it’s important for such errors to be corrected (see here and here for why we believe it is), a simple question instead: why does it have to be so hard to […]

]]> By: MediaBugs: Where you fix the news! « Mark Follman http://mediabugs.org/blog/2009/09/15/media-inaccuracy/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:12:36 +0000 http://www.mediabugs.org/blog/?p=63#comment-29 […] shows that fewer than 2 percent of errors in daily newspapers ever get corrected. (And there are reams of errors, studies show, in newspapers and across all manner of news […]

]]> By: Helping fix the error-filled news « Mark Follman http://mediabugs.org/blog/2009/09/15/media-inaccuracy/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:12:45 +0000 http://www.mediabugs.org/blog/?p=63#comment-18 […] Why focus on fixing errors in the news? For one, public trust in the media wallows at a historic low. As Scott explained in a recent blog post, there are several reasons for this — perhaps chief among them that the news is riddled with mistakes, and an extraordinary percentage of them go uncorrected. […]

]]> By: Ricks http://mediabugs.org/blog/2009/09/15/media-inaccuracy/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:50:34 +0000 http://www.mediabugs.org/blog/?p=63#comment-7 Good initiative! Regars from a blog of Spain!

]]> By: Simon Firth http://mediabugs.org/blog/2009/09/15/media-inaccuracy/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:27:02 +0000 http://www.mediabugs.org/blog/?p=63#comment-5 Scott — did you see Dan Gillmor’s list of “Eleven Things I’d Do If I Ran a News Organization” [http://mediactive.com/2009/09/12/eleven-things-id-do-if-i-ran-a-news-organization/] last week? Correcting errors in stories and being more transparent about what’s still known and unknown about a story were two big parts of his critique.

As I blogged yesterday at http://www.simonfirth.com, Gillmor’s piece was a rare and refreshing acknowledgement that the news industry so many are wanting to ‘save’ right now is far from perfect — so I’m glad to see you making a similar case here about trust.

What I find exciting about thinking this way is that, instead of seeing digital media as threatening all that was good about print journalism, we can understand instead how new technologies might help us create next-generation news organizations that serve us better than ever. And if they do that, my guess is that they will be services for which people will once again be willing to pay.

]]> By: Scott Rosenberg http://mediabugs.org/blog/2009/09/15/media-inaccuracy/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:05:00 +0000 http://www.mediabugs.org/blog/?p=63#comment-4 MediaBugs is funded by the Knight News Challenge — we’re upfront about that, and proud of it. This blog is not the project itself, just a place to begin talking about it.

The project will be designed to be non-partisan in nature, focusing as much as we can on factual issues in local coverage of the SF Bay Area.

I haven’t looked at who is on the Knight board of trustees, nor do they have any role in this project. I do work with Knight Foundation journalism staff.

]]> By: bobf http://mediabugs.org/blog/2009/09/15/media-inaccuracy/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:17:43 +0000 http://www.mediabugs.org/blog/?p=63#comment-3 Is it true that your blog is being subsidized by a $335,000 grant from a foundation, the Knight Foundation, whose board of trustees includes a long-time politically partisan campaign fund-raiser for President Obama named John Rogers?

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