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Everybody makes mistakes. In journalism, a profession devoted to keeping people properly informed, those errors can be embarrassing. That's why a blog called Regret The Error keeps track of the fourth estate's follies. Freelance journalist Craig Silverman started the project in 2004 after reading the following correction from Lexington, Kent., Herald-Leader: "It has come to the editor's attention that the Herald-Leader neglected to cover the Civil Rights Movement. We regret the omission." Silverman has been tracking media-related corrections ever since. Regret the Error's annual "best of" list went...
...Silverman's blog is more than just a list of funny bloopers. It also recounts several egregious plagiarism cases, including one in which a Canadian newspaper fabricated an entire story about Prime Minister Stephen Harper, claiming that he pocketed a communion wafer instead of ingesting it during a church communion. "Wafergate" never happened, and the story included quotes supposedly uttered by prominent officials that were completely fabricated. Whoops. Hopefully this buys us a little leeway: the next time we screw up, just remember that others have done worse...
...original version of this article misstated Ben Silverman's title during his tenure...
...While nobody's saying whether she'll have a talk show, Oprah has confirmed she will "appear on and participate in" programs on OWN. Instead of taking their Oprah straight up for an hour a day, it seems viewers are going to get a taste of her everywhere. Ben Silverman, the former co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and now CEO of new media firm Electus, is buying. "Her willingness to migrate to cable shows that content and brand equity travel with her," he said at an event to launch Notional, a web and TV content company. "She's betting...
...experiences in the developing world and were concerned with the energy crisis, so we combined the two,” explained creator Julia C. Silverman...