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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
$7.99Format
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ebook (Digital original) $7.99Buy from Other Retailers:
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.
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