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Because the media is basically under direct financial motivation to shoot first and ask questions later, corrections are pretty important.
Blogs often excuse their mistakes by saying, "Oh, we're not newspapers so it's really easy to correct ourselves." In fact, after four years of dragging-his-heels-like-a-dickbag through legal proceedings, that's what Matt Drudge finally said when he "corrected" his defamatory post about the guy beating his wife: "The great thing about this medium I'm working in is that you can fix things fast."
Except that doesn't matter at all.
A study done by Brendan Nyhan at Dartmouth College basically finds that corrections to news stories don't work at all. In fact, there's a little thing they call the "Backfire Effect," where corrections actually increase misperceptions and make people believe the incorrect story even more than they did previously.
Originally posted by AlphaHawk
I'll see if I can find it, because I think it perfectly sums up the way the media handled Sandy Hook.
Originally posted by alfa1
Originally posted by AlphaHawk
I'll see if I can find it, because I think it perfectly sums up the way the media handled Sandy Hook.
The way the media handled Sandy Hook was appalling.
For example, the identity of the shooter was:
- Two shooters.
- Shooter was a father of one of the students.
- Shooter's mother is teacher at the school
- Shooters father is confirmed as dead at a house in Newtown.
- Ryan Lanza is named as the sole shooter.
- The shooter is 24 years of age.
- He is a child of one of the teachers
- Shooters father is confirmed as dead at a house in New Jersey.
- Story that the shooter first killed his father in New Jersey, then drove to Sandy Hook to do the school shootings.
- One of the other suspects, arrested and handcuffed at the scene is Ryan Lanza's younger brother
- Adam Lanza has been confirmed as found dead at Ryan Lanza's home in New Jersey
So there was about half a day of this garbage before the shooter was finally named as 20 year old Adam Lanza, and not a single one of the statements above is true. Not a single one.
It was much the same story with the Boston Bombings. They just say whatever the hell they feel like is the latest rumour going around and figure it all out later. Its not "news", its gossip. Its rumour. But the media dont care.