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This look at careless journalism—from hilarious mistakes to egregious ethical lapses—is “chock-full of amusing historical anecdotes” (Publishers Weekly).Winner of the National Press Club's Arthur Rowse Award for Press CriticismWe regret the error: it's a phrase that appears in newspapers almost daily, the standard notice that something went terribly wrong in the reporting, editing, or printing of an article. From Craig Silverman, the proprietor of www.RegretTheError.com, one of the Internet's most popular media-related websites, comes a collection of funny, shocking, and sometimes disturbing journalistic slip-ups and corrections. On display are all types of media inaccuracy—from typos to “fuzzy math” to “obiticide” (printing the obituary of a person very much alive and well) to complete and utter ethical lapses. While some of the errors can be laugh-out-loud funny, the book also serves as a sobering journey through the history of media mistakes (including the outrageous hoaxes that dominated newspapers during the circulation wars of the nineteenth century) and a serious muckraking investigation of contemporary journalism's lack of accountability to the public. Regret the Error shin

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Author

Craig Silverman; Jeff Jarvis

Publisher

New York: Union Square Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781402751530

Category

history

Subjects

Language Learning, Business, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.7 / 5 (47 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13