Walled Culture has already written about the two–pronged attack by the copyright industry against the Internet Archive, which was founded by Brewster Kahle, whose Kahle/Austin Foundation supports this blog. The Intercept has an interesting article that reveals another reason why some newspaper publishers are not great fans of the site: The New York Times tried …

  • @CrikesteEnglish
    85•8 months ago

    Not in the news world. Corrections need to be made so people don’t go around spewing nonsense.

    EDIT: And those corrections need to be bold and assert themselves. You can’t simply change your words and expect people to find the corrections themselves. That is too much work for the reader, and stating corrections is VERY easy for the publisher.

    • Ludwig van BeethovenEnglish
      21•8 months ago

      This. My national news agency publishes corrections like in ye olden days with ye olde telex: separate issue

      example would be:

      CORRECTION - President denounces war in Israel

      BULLETIN - President denounces war in Isral

      listed separately, added in their own archives etc.