Newspapers Have Errors?

[GeauxSioux]

Study: Newspapers Make Many Errors, Correct Few

As much as traditional media outlets and old-fashioned political types like to rag on blogs for being inaccurate, the fact is the old media is hardly a paragon of accuracy. According to a University of Oregon study (h/t Glenn Reynolds), newspapers are full of mistakes that almost never get corrected.

The average newspaper should expand by a factor of 50 the amount of space given to corrections if Scott R. Maier's research is any guide.

Maier, an associate professor at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication, describes in a forthcoming research paper his findings that fewer than 2 percent of factually flawed articles are corrected at dailies.

Maier's study relied on data gathered from 10 metropolitan newspapers: the Boulder Daily Camera, the Charlotte Observer, the Detroit Free Press, the Grand Forks Herald, the Lexington Herald-Leader, the Miami Herald (Broward Edition), the Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Jose Mercury News, the Tallahassee Democrat, and the Wichita Eagle.

[SiouxMD]

Study: Newspapers Make Many Errors, Correct Few

I believe Scott R. Maier has made a mistake...the Grand Forks Herald is not a metropolitan newspaper.