Immediate, online journalism is changing the game of corrections
Doug Fisher writes on Common Sense Journalism that the definition and correction of mistakes for media has all changed.His idea:
"Changes
have to be transparent. Learn to use the "strikethrough" code in HTML
to show most changes (for legal reasons, libelous ones may have to be
purged).Corrections have to be linked back to the original
article, and if you are going to purge something, the
correction/explanation needs to be at the URL of the original."I agree with the ideas of making corrections very transparent and I also think that most journalists have very little of a clue about how to make corrections in the online world.
What do you all think?