Comments on: How hard is it to report an error to the Wall Street Journal? Hard. http://mediabugs.org/blog/2010/05/20/how-hard-is-it-to-report-an-error-to-the-wall-street-journal-hard/ Fix the news Tue, 23 Sep 2014 03:33:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: wyne http://mediabugs.org/blog/2010/05/20/how-hard-is-it-to-report-an-error-to-the-wall-street-journal-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-321 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:10:59 +0000 http://www.mediabugs.org/blog/?p=115#comment-321 INSURANCE

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]]> By: saddle http://mediabugs.org/blog/2010/05/20/how-hard-is-it-to-report-an-error-to-the-wall-street-journal-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-229 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:15:19 +0000 http://www.mediabugs.org/blog/?p=115#comment-229 This is very common in smaller media outlets as well. So with that being said, good luck to seeing anything happen with The Journal. But you never know, stranger things have happened.

]]> By: SF Bay Area Injury Lawyer http://mediabugs.org/blog/2010/05/20/how-hard-is-it-to-report-an-error-to-the-wall-street-journal-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-227 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:57:43 +0000 http://www.mediabugs.org/blog/?p=115#comment-227 All I can say you have more patience and determination to do the right than than the rest of us. Me, I would not even think about picking up the phone if the comment form doesn’t work.

]]> By: Alan http://mediabugs.org/blog/2010/05/20/how-hard-is-it-to-report-an-error-to-the-wall-street-journal-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:50:43 +0000 http://www.mediabugs.org/blog/?p=115#comment-224 You know, it seems like you could spend days going around in circles with something like this…Maybe it is that endless spiral you feel as things are going down the toilet?

Back in the heyday of print news, facts had to be checked before something was published…and don’t get me started on proofreading. Somewhere along the line, computers have taken over the proof reading of most books and we have all gotten to learn just how bad of a speller an author can be. Add bad spelling to computerized grammer checkers and you get sentences like this:

Look over their, someone left there drink near that picture of water.

I do respect that you took the time to bother.

]]> By: The Wall Street Journal: Cavalier about corrections? | MediaBugs Blog http://mediabugs.org/blog/2010/05/20/how-hard-is-it-to-report-an-error-to-the-wall-street-journal-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-92 Tue, 25 May 2010 17:14:24 +0000 http://www.mediabugs.org/blog/?p=115#comment-92 […] week I wrote about my fruitless quest to alert the Wall Street Journal to a mistake it had made in a book review — misspelling the name of the author the piece […]

]]> By: Scott Rosenberg http://mediabugs.org/blog/2010/05/20/how-hard-is-it-to-report-an-error-to-the-wall-street-journal-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Mon, 24 May 2010 13:43:56 +0000 http://www.mediabugs.org/blog/?p=115#comment-80 Thanks! We’ll fix the typo.

]]> By: Roch101 http://mediabugs.org/blog/2010/05/20/how-hard-is-it-to-report-an-error-to-the-wall-street-journal-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Mon, 24 May 2010 13:35:08 +0000 http://www.mediabugs.org/blog/?p=115#comment-79 “so sometimes, I gues,s the comments work.”

Might want to fix that.

]]> By: Sumana Harihareswara http://mediabugs.org/blog/2010/05/20/how-hard-is-it-to-report-an-error-to-the-wall-street-journal-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Fri, 21 May 2010 12:00:20 +0000 http://www.mediabugs.org/blog/?p=115#comment-65 I thought of this post when I visited a Portland Press-Herald article and saw this note at the bottom:

“Were you interviewed for this story? If so, please fill out our accuracy form

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