When newspapers get it wrong
January 04th, 2006 
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Comments(0) How should newspapers react when they jump the gun and publish information that’s clearly false?
Poynter Online posted a story about several newspapers that printed a version of their paper with big headlines saying the miners in Virginia were found alive before the news were confirmed. Unfortunately it didn’t happen that way (the last I heard 12 out of 13 were found dead).
Obviously there’s nothing much you can do about the papers once they are printed and sent out but I quite like the idea of an info box pointing to the latest developments on the website. That’s the least they could have done. Plus a big appology in the next issue of course.
