B Rosen on FlickrExpecting infallibility from journalists is unrealistic. Granted,sometimes, corrections are entirely unwarranted, or like this one from NPR.
Clarification May 21,2015
In a previous correction on this post, we corrected something that was actually right. So we have corrected that correction. It had to finish with Celsius temperatures.
Some corrections are so brilliant they are nearly worth the mistakes that generated them, and while others indicate serious organizational flaws and risk having terrible consequences.
Following a tradition started by “Regret the Error” author Craig Silverman,whose list on BuzzFeed Canada you should definitely read, we looked back at some of the most notable corrections of 2015 (Poynter articles included).
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Source: poynter.org