Columbia Journalism Review put out a report on the lack of transparency and accountability newspaper websites have. The study shows that about 50% of the time “major errors” are corrected online with no notice to the reader. The study goes further to say that websites that have more than 50,000 unique visitors a month are less likely to make it known that they have made a correction. This is not an excepted practice online. When bloggers make significant corrections they are expected to mention that the piece has been updated or corrected. This is just another way that mainstream media is failing us.
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