Currently reading a twitter thread where a publication specializing in X made a claim which is obviously and materially wrong to anyone practicing in X, where they were apprised of this, and where the editor responded, approximately, "Yeah, words are complicated."
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I'm not linking to it because of my no-shaming policy, so you'll have to trust me on this. One of the surprises of my adult life has been that the media's attitude to accuracy is Of Course It Is Accurate, Peasant.
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Twitter has had more impact on my perception of journalism than any other profession. I've learned that doing good journalism is hard, and gained a lot of admiration for individual journalists, but there are strong disincentives against admitting error.
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Yep. Organizational and individual imperatives to sharply limit corrections and retractions, two words which mean a different thing to insiders than they mean to consumers of news.
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