Walled Culture has already written about the two–pronged attack by the copyright industry against the Internet Archive, which was founded by Brewster Kahle, whose Kahle/Austin Foundation supports this blog. The Intercept has an interesting article that reveals another reason why some newspaper publishers are not great fans of the site: The New York Times tried …

  • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
    01·
    1 year ago

    Nothing wrong with admitting your mistakes, but also seems to me that you should be able to fix them without publicly announcing it.

    • Crikeste@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Not in the news world. Corrections need to be made so people don’t go around spewing nonsense.

      EDIT: And those corrections need to be bold and assert themselves. You can’t simply change your words and expect people to find the corrections themselves. That is too much work for the reader, and stating corrections is VERY easy for the publisher.

      • Ludwig van Beethoven@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        This. My national news agency publishes corrections like in ye olden days with ye olde telex: separate issue

        example would be:

        CORRECTION - President denounces war in Israel

        BULLETIN - President denounces war in Isral

        listed separately, added in their own archives etc.

    • GeekFTW@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      also seems to me that you should be able to fix them without publicly announcing it.

      You would seem to be wrong then lol. News has standards higher than Uncle Joe’s Truckin’ Blog™ or someone’s Aunt’s Facebook post.