Wednesday, May 18, 2005

The Newest News Slacker

The Detroit Free Press. According to the story, "The Detroit Free Press will begin random post-publication fact-checking to look for inaccuracies that slip through its editors..."

Does anyone else see a problem with this? Post-publication checking? Why not do fact-checking BEFORE a story is published? And stories are only subject to random fact-checking? That means they clearly aren't interested in publishing stories that are correct all the time.

The funny thing is...the media doesn't even think it's doing anything wrong.

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