Could This Problem Be Self-Correcting?The
Ankle-Biters point us to this post by
NY Times Public Editor Byron Calame on the Times' policy on correcting errors by their columnists. But I found this part amusing:
Ms. Collins' existing written policy calls for uniformly publishing corrections at the bottom of opinion columns, which leads to their being appended to the original article in nytimes.com and various electronic databases. The approach taken by Mr. Rich means that users of nytimes.com who find themselves reading the Sept. 18 column--something they now must pay to do--get no warning that it contains any error at all. As I've said before, I think a crucial function of a correction these days is to get the right information appended to the increasingly referenced digital versions of articles as soon as possible.Need I point out that the digital versions of Frank Rich's columns are being
decreasingly referenced, thanks to the Times deciding to charge $50 a year for on-line access?
