> News organisations can't be expected to verify every claim.
I thought this was the defining characteristic, that set them apart from gossipmongers and fools.
Yes, I not only can expect that, I think I should.
I thought this was the defining characteristic, that set them apart from gossipmongers and fools.
Yes, I not only can expect that, I think I should.
But when you are asking a journalist to report on an event minutes to hours after it happened then obviously they will have limited time to validate a claim. Especially in a war-zone where their ability to operate is limited.
It's not really possible to be fast and thorough at the same time.
The ask was that retractions happen, and that journalists own up to being wrong.
There's evidence provided to show that NYT is very reluctant to backtrack.
I don't ask this. Some push that stuff hard, because it gets ratings, or whatever the equivalent is now that we're a few decades post-broadcast-tv.
Of course, it doesn't get ratings so much as it draws from a bank of integrity that journalism squirreled away through great effort and frustration for over a century, and once they've spent all that, there will be nothing left. Hell, the account's probably been overdrawn for awhile now. And it's as if no one even noticed.