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Comment by nabakin | Hacker News Reader

Usually when publications make gross errors like this, they don't care or silently fix their articles. Ars noticed they were wrong and added a notice explaining how they were wrong. I've always considered Ars to be one of the better news sites out there but this increases my respect for them

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A personal favorite of my father was a NY Times correction of years' past. It went something along the lines of "Previously when reviewing $restaurant we discussed the half cooked chicken. The actual menu item is called the cooked half chicken. We regret the error."

I've seen the New York Times and CNN do the same thing.

I'm pretty sure that it's standard "journalistic integrity" stuff.

I've also seen NYT and CNN make updates to articles that materially change the original reporting without noting the change[1], or adding an blink-and-you'll-miss it note at the very end of the article. Ars consistently updates the title and has the explanation for the changes before the original article body, which is beyond other news organizations since it's impossible to miss.

1. See the NYT or CNN tabs at http://newsdiffs.org to see how often this happens

I agree with this.

I've been an Ars fan for years, but they are an outlier, in how they handle this (which is a good reason to like them).

Most news outlets have their changelist buried at the end. I don't think that it necessarily means they are bad. There's plenty of other stuff they pull, that does that.

I've seen this too

Thirty years ago it may have been standard. I'm pretty sure it isn't nowadays.

They added a correction, they didn't fix the article. It still reads "But lobbying by the nation's largest technology interests seems to have kept the bill parked on her desk for months, where it could remain until it dies on Dec. 28." in the lede, which is flatly incorrect per the correction[1].

Inaction by the governor will pass the law, not veto it. Ars only makes that clear (and barely so) in the correction blurb at the bottom.

[1] At least as phrased. I'm certainly no expert on New York State legislative process.

The headline and subheadline should be updated, though. Plenty of folks won't even read the first paragraph, and they'll show up on all the social media share widgets when people share the link.

Yeah, good point

> Usually when publications make gross errors like this, they don't care or silently fix their articles.

[citation needed]

https://twitter.com/search?q=(from%3Anyt_diff)%20min_faves%3...

Those do not generally look like gross errors to me.

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