Regret the Error. How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Union Square Press
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2007
Edition: First Edition

Description: 366 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: We regret the error: its a phrase that appears in newspapers almost daily, the standard notice that something went terribly wrong in the reporting, editing, or printing of an article. one of the Internets most popular media-related websites, comes a collection of funny, shocking, and sometimes disturbing journalistic slip-ups and corrections. On display are all types of media inaccuracyfrom fuzzy math� to obiticide� (printing the obituary of a person very much alive and well) to complete and utter ethical lapses. While some of the errors can be laugh-out-loud funny, the book contains a sobering journey through the history of media mistakes (including the outrageous hoaxes that dominated newspapers during the circulation wars of the 19th-century) and a serious muckraking investigation of contemporary journalisms lack of accountability to the public. It shines a spotlight on the medias carelessness and the sometimes tragic and calamitous consequences of weak or non-existent fact checking.  

ISBN: 9781402751530