Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free SpeechWinner of the National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism!
From Craig Silverman, proprietor of 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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Contents
V | 15 |
VI | 18 |
VIII | 21 |
IX | 25 |
X | 28 |
XI | 30 |
XII | 39 |
XIII | 45 |
XLV | 216 |
XLVI | 219 |
XLVII | 225 |
XLVIII | 227 |
XLIX | 229 |
L | 233 |
LI | 235 |
LII | 237 |
XIV | 49 |
XV | 54 |
XVI | 65 |
XVII | 70 |
XVIII | 76 |
XIX | 82 |
XX | 87 |
XXI | 91 |
XXIII | 93 |
XXIV | 98 |
XXV | 102 |
XXVI | 107 |
XXVII | 117 |
XXVIII | 128 |
XXIX | 138 |
XXX | 139 |
XXXI | 149 |
XXXII | 162 |
XXXIII | 166 |
XXXIV | 175 |
XXXV | 179 |
XXXVI | 181 |
XXXVII | 186 |
XXXVIII | 188 |
XXXIX | 194 |
XL | 197 |
XLI | 200 |
XLII | 203 |
XLIII | 208 |
XLIV | 213 |