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user-inactivated  ·  4035 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: On Criticizing what You Haven't Read

I dislike that newspapers can say, essentially, whatever they want -- the maximum punishment being a centimeter tall "retraction" on page 8 two weeks later.





ButterflyEffect  ·  4035 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The worst part about that is how many people actually notice and care about the retraction. I'd wager that it's a fraction of the people that read the original article.

user-inactivated  ·  4035 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's not like print newspapers are going to survive much longer, and these things are very visible on the web.