Etienne Pollard wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Tom Steinberg<[email protected]> wrote: >> I will ask all the journalists who published the story without >> checking (and perhaps the bloggers too) if they'd like to donate, as >> part of asking for corrections! > > I would ask them to publish new articles stating the mistake and > correcting it, rather than just updating their articles at the end. > The Register is a good case in point - you have to read the whole > thing carefully to notice the sentences at the end that effectively > say "oops, what we wrote above was completely wrong".
Yeah, they've always done that. I think keeping the original and correcting is better, actually, as then you can see the original and what people have commented on - but the correction should be at the *top*, not the bottom, so you'd see it first. Anyway, ElReg have published a whole new article as well: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/06/mysociety_not_sacking_civil_servants/ ATB, Matthew _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
