Posted by dnotice
October 31st, 2011
You may or not know that the <a href=”http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049659/Corrections-clarifications.html”>Daily Mail has recently</a> started up a “Corrections and Clarifications” column.<br />
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It appears <a href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/12/paul-dacre-leveson-inquiry”>to be in response</a> to defend the current status of media self-regulation, which is currently being investigated by <a href=”http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/”>the Leveson inquiry</a>.<br />
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By way of keeping track of what is published <a href=”http://blog.dave.org.uk/2011/10/daily-mail-corrections.html”>Dave Cross has started up a site</a> which feeds the Mail’s corrections into one place: <a href=”http://mail.fellowtravellers.org.uk/”>Corrections and Clarifications</a>.
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As Dave points out:<br />
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It’s a pretty half-arsed affair for many reasons. The only way to find it is by <a href=”http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?sel=site&searchPhrase=corrections+and+clarifications&orderBy=dateDesc”>searching for it by title</a>. There’s no link for it anywhere on the site and it doesn’t seem to have been given its own section. Most bizarrely, the corrections don’t appear in the <a href=”http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.rss”>main web feed</a> for the paper.</blockquote>
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None of the corrections link back to the original story and in many cases you only get a vague description to help you work out which story they are talking about. And even if you work out which story they’re talking about, it’s often impossible to find the story on the web site as it has been removed.</blockquote>
Any suggestions can be emailed to <a href=”mailto:corrections@mailonsunday.co.uk”>corrections@mailonsunday.co.uk</a> or sent via post.
You may or not know that the Daily Mail has recently started a “Corrections and Clarifications” column.
It appears to be an attempt to defend the current status of media self-regulation, which is currently being investigated by the Leveson inquiry.
By way of keeping track of what is published Dave Cross has started up a site which feeds the Mail’s corrections into one place: Corrections and Clarifications.
As Dave points out:
It’s a pretty half-arsed affair for many reasons. The only way to find it is by searching for it by title. There’s no link for it anywhere on the site and it doesn’t seem to have been given its own section. Most bizarrely, the corrections don’t appear in the main web feed for the paper.
None of the corrections link back to the original story and in many cases you only get a vague description to help you work out which story they are talking about. And even if you work out which story they’re talking about, it’s often impossible to find the story on the web site as it has been removed.
Any suggestions can be emailed to corrections@mailonsunday.co.uk or sent via post.
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