In 1978, investigative journalists from the Chicago Sun-Times purchased and ran a neighborhood bar as a means of uncovering corruption by city inspectors.
“Missing White Woman Syndrome” is a phenomenon…
“Missing White Woman Syndrome” is a phenomenon of disproportionately heightened media coverage surrounding disappearances of young, white, upper-class women compared to similar cases of missing males or non-white women.
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The journalist Nellie Bly got bored…
The journalist Nellie Bly got bored of writing about fashion and gardening. Instead, she went undercover in a mental asylum to expose the horrible conditions there. She later travelled around the world by balloon in record time.
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The notion of an “objective” media…
The notion of an “objective” media was a commercial product that only evolved in the late 1800s as newspapers shifted from partisan to nonpartisan in order to attract larger audiences from both parties and to sell these readers’ attention to advertisers.
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Enjoy These Funny Editorial Mistakes From the Last Decade
Well, these are…unfortunate.
Hey, writers make mistakes. But if they have any values, they admit their errors, apologize, correct them, and move on. Here are some of the funniest and most interesting editorial mistakes and fails from the 2010s…
Let’s see what went down.
1. That is lengthy.
Yikes. The correction at the end of the op-ed is a lengthy one.
https://t.co/bGcdrIXtHN pic.twitter.com/I4Dr1oUglj
— Queenie Wong (@QWongSJ) October 31, 2019
2. Oops…
A+ correction pic.twitter.com/LveoknpEkG
— Jake Maccoby (@jdmaccoby) November 22, 2019
3. That’s a big difference.
My story about @PeteButtigieg ends with him referring to the “failures of the Obama era.” That’s an inaccurate quote — the result of transcribing a noisy recording at a loud rally. His exact words were “failures of the old normal”
— Evan Halper (@evanhalper) November 11, 2019
4. Wouldn’t want that to happen.
good new yorker correction pic.twitter.com/FetNQcw56M
— Parker Higgins (@xor) June 14, 2019
5. Thank you for that!
just a spectacular correction here pic.twitter.com/BUq8txOYZB
— Edd Dracott (@EddDracott) November 16, 2019
6. How’d that one get by the editor?
Lmao at this @nytimes correction pic.twitter.com/FfTYUnp1dT
— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) October 23, 2019
7. Don’t say that to Kansas Citians.
Happy Tuesday pic.twitter.com/8ELhosHk99
— Nathan Lawrence
(@NathanBLawrence) July 3, 2019
8. WOW.
Greatest. Correction. Ever. pic.twitter.com/smNLzUHwAT
— Daniel Brogan (@dbrogan) November 11, 2019
9. Hahahahaha. Sad!
This might be the funniest correction I've ever seen. https://t.co/LlT5ELQTph pic.twitter.com/5GnEOVv2uc
— Simon Hurtz (@SimonHurtz) March 10, 2016
10. Well, isn’t that interesting…
Still the funniest correction, ever.
pic.twitter.com/8UnDNEK02K
— RedSarah #Richard4Deputy
(@redsarah99) July 6, 2019
11. Good move on his part.
From the @NYTimes Correction File: sweetest, loveliest, slyly funniest correction of late: pic.twitter.com/EB5aLgYezH
— Sara Catania (@Catanify) March 31, 2016
12. Not “eaten to death.”
this is the funniest correction to a story I have ever seen pic.twitter.com/yasvWdHim7
— Tyler McCall (@eiffeltyler) April 3, 2019
13. A pretty big difference.
My new favourite newspaper correction pic.twitter.com/wGaFcuAMeh
— Paul Cunningham (@cunninghampaul) August 2, 2018
14. Briney Spear.
A most excellent celebrity name misspelling in the WSJ pic.twitter.com/FpOllQrvtE
— Craig Silverman (@CraigSilverman) October 6, 2018
15. How many of you have made this mistake?
Love you, @washingtonpost pic.twitter.com/wxxD5vdUzO
— Lizzie O'Leary (@lizzieohreally) February 8, 2019
Big fails!
But, like I said: admit it, fix it, apologize, move on.
Unlike some folks in government and media, these people all admitted their mistakes. Imagine that!?!?
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More than 100 years ago, a French sports…
More than 100 years ago, a French sports journalist suggested the idea of organizing a 6-day cycling race to the editor of a local newspaper to boost sales – because he couldn’t think of any other idea. That race was called Tour de France – it’s now the most prestigious bicycle race in the world.
In 1887 a reporter named Nellie…
In 1887 a reporter named Nellie Bly talked her way into an insane asylum in New York and published her experience after ten days in the asylum. She claimed many of the patients seemed completely sane and the conditions were horrid. This led to NYC budgeting $1,000,000 to care of the insane.
In 1920, the New York Times…
In 1920, the New York Times published an editorial titled “A Severe Strain on Credulity,” mocking scientist Robert Goddard’s contention that a rocket could conceivably leave the atmosphere and even reach the moon. They later printed a retraction, the day after the launch of Apollo 11.
60 Minutes ran a story…
60 Minutes ran a story on the Audi 5000 in 1986, claiming that it accelerated suddenly on its own. However, the demonstration used a rigged car whose transmission had been altered. Government agencies vindicated the car, but Audi’s sales were affected. 60 minutes never apologised to Audi. 00
In 1977 the Chicago Sun-Times bought a bar…
In 1977 the Chicago Sun-Times bought a bar and ran it with undercover reporters to investigate widespread corruption. 00