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| Introduction to the Paperback Edition | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Statement of Accuracy | |
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| A Brief History of Media Accuracy and Errors | |
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| Oral News | |
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| Written News | |
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| Birth of the Newspaper: The Seventeenth-Century Press | |
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| The Eighteenth Century and the Fourth Estate | |
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| The Nineteenth Century: From Excess and Error to Responsibility | |
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| Mass Media: Born of a Big Lie | |
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| Hearst, Pulitzer, and Sulzberger: A Battle for the Soul of Journalism | |
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| The Twentieth Century: Accuracy as Code | |
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| Regrets, More Than a Few | |
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| "Dewey Defeats Truman" | |
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| A Theory of Error | |
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| The Truth About Media Errors | |
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| Print Media Errors | |
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| Broadcast Errors | |
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| Uncorrected Errors | |
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| The Necessity of Error (No, really) | |
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| The Corrections: Multiple Offenses | |
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| Common Errors | |
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| Names and Titles | |
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| The Corrections: Names and Titles | |
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| Typos | |
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| The Corrections: Typos | |
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| Numbers | |
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| The Corrections: Fuzzy Numbers | |
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| Unreliable Sources and Malicious Reporters | |
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| Unreliable Sources | |
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| Malicious Reporters | |
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| The Lesson Not Learned | |
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| Obiticide: Death by Media | |
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| Planned Obiticide | |
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| Obiticide and the Average Citizen | |
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| The Corrections | |
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| Mistakes and the Mistaken | |
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| The Mobster and the Clown | |
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| The Terrorist | |
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| Doctors, Lawyers, and the Accused | |
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| Tainted Images | |
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| The Corrections | |
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| Misidentifications and Personal Errors | |
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| Photo Misidentifications | |
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| Errors Heard Round the World | |
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| The Twenty-Four-Hour Broken Telephone | |
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| Too Incredible Not to Report | |
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| The Trouble with Corrections | |
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| Corrections: A Brief History | |
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| Birth of the Modern Correction | |
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| Online Corrections | |
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| Broadcast Corrections | |
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| The Failure of Corrections | |
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| The Art of Correction | |
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| The Corrections: Strange and Sublime | |
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| So Sorry: Remarkable Apologies | |
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| The Disappearance of Newspaper Proofreading | |
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| "Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu" | |
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| The Demise of Newspaper Proofreaders | |
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| The Birth (and Slow Death) of Magazine Fact Checking | |
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| Anatomy of the Checker | |
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| Everybody Has a System | |
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| Death by a Thousand Cuts | |
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| Watching the Detectives: The Rise of External Fact Checking | |
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| Distributed Fact Checking: RatherGate | |
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| Media-Monitoring Organizations | |
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| The Big Newspaper in the Sky | |
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| Accuracy Training | |
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| Ombudsmen as Error Trackers | |
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| Instant Source Surveys | |
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| The Corrections | |
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| Updates and Mistakes | |
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| Online Corrections | |
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| Fact Checking and Plagiarism Detection | |
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| Embracing the Lighter Side of Accuracy | |
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| For Readers | |
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| How to Request a Correction | |
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| Ensuring Accuracy When Interviewed | |
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| The Way Forward | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |
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| Error Report Form | |