Regret the error
Subtitle: how media mistakes pollute the press and imperil free speech
By: Craig Silverman ; foreword by Jeff Jarvis
Contributors: Jarvis, Jeff
Publisher: Union Square Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781402765643
Subjects: Journalistic errors; Newspapers; Sections, columns; Corrections
Notes: "With a new introduction by the author"--Cover.

"Winner of the National Press Club's Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 338-357) and index.
Table of contents: title: Brief history of media accuracy and errors; title: Mass media: born of a big lie; title: Regrets, more than a few; title: Truth about media errors; title: Common errors; title: Unreliable sources and malicious reporters; title: Obiticide: death by media; title: Mistakes and the mistaken; title: Errors heard round the world; title: Trouble with corrections; title: Disappearance of newspaper proofreading; title: Birth (and slow death) of magazine fact checking; title: Watching the detectives: the rise of external fact checking; title: Big newspaper in the sky.