Thursday, May 1, 2008

On the subject of website scrubbing


Regrettheerror.com has an interesting article on a recent Internet error by a news site that created a buzz and then was "scrubbed" without comment or correction by the news organization.

There were some discussions of this when I was at the Journal and the final take was that there was no need to issue corrections on line. There are often mistakes, some are simple typos that probably don't require a correction, which are simply fixed and not acknowledged.

The problem is that frequent visitors to the site may only see the incorrect version. Regrettheerror.com tracks news sites that do, and do not, issue corrections. So far, the Flint Journal (probably not a significant enough publication) is not listed on the roster there.


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