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Regret the Error

How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech

Contributors

By Craig Silverman

Foreword by Jeff Jarvis

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Sep 10, 2010
Page Count
400 pages
Publisher
Union Square & Co.
ISBN-13
9781402774492

Price

$7.99

Format

ebook (Digital original)

Format:

ebook (Digital original) $7.99

Winner of the National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism!

From Craig Silverman, proprietor of http://www.RegretTheError.com, comes a lively journey through the history of media mistakes via a chronicle of funny, shocking, and often disturbing journalistic slip-ups. 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.