PENETRATING INSIGHTS: The Average Newspaper Corrects Very Few Of Its Factual Errors, Says Professor
The Average Newspaper Corrects Very Few Of Its Factual Errors, Says Professor
- Slate, August 15, 2007
Editorial Note: It’s been two months now, and The Stiletto is still waiting for the New York Sun’s managing editor Ira Stoll and Best of The Web Today’s editor James Taranto to correct the record on a June 15th article written by uncredentialed freelance writer Heather Robinson, and to acknowledge that she had fabricated quotes attributed to Harvard Professor Jessica Stern. With enough prodding - The Stiletto is both patient and persistent - all the parties to this journalistic fraud will eventually do the right thing.
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