Regret the Error
How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech
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Winner of the National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism! 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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Regret the Error, Jeff Jarvis, Craig Silverman
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- Released
- 2009
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- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Regret the Error
- Subtitle
- How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jeff Jarvis, Craig Silverman
- Publisher
- Union Square & Co.
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 366
- ISBN10
- 1402765649
- ISBN13
- 9781402765643
- Series
- Tags
- Humor, Politics, USA, Professional Literature, Linguistics, Journalism, Writing, Media and Media Communication, Industry, Humanities
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
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- Winner of the National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism! 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.