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Anatomy of a screw-up

Editor and Publisher tries to drag the newspaper and TV reporters who incorrectly reported the West Virginia miners story back behind the woodshed for the twenty licks they deserve, but I think they go soft on the reasons why this happened.

"But it won't excuse the blunt truth that we violated a basic tenet of journalism today in our printed edition: Report what you know and how you know it."

Ok, that's nice. But why?

This entry was posted by Kevin Creighton, on 1.04.2006. You can leave your response.

“Anatomy of a screw-up”
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