Stephen Bain wrote:
On 2/10/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The UK media has discovered the US Senate story and today is Media Batshit Day. I just did a Guardian interview for tomorrow (to be in both paper and online - the online version is 3x the size of the paper version, so it's always a good idea to ask!). So look out for it.
The Australian press has discovered it too: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18101931-2,00.html
It's an interesting example of how errors manage to creep in. The article states that Meehan is a Senator; he's a Representative. It also states that he had planned to limit himself to four years in Congress; that should read four terms. These are innocent errors that do not affect the impact of the article. It's easy to spot these when you are familiar with the issue, but it leaves one wondering about fact checking and the reliability of what we read in the newspapers. ;-)
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