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Also by Craig Silverman:

Regret the Error, February 2009
Hardcover

Regret the Error
Craig Silverman

How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech

Union Square Press
February 2009
On Sale: February 3, 2009
400 pages
ISBN: 1402765649
EAN: 9781402765643
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

Winner of the National Press Club’s Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism!

From Craig Silverman, proprietor of www.RegretTheError.com, comes a lively journey through the history of media mistakes via a chronicle of funny, shocking, and often disturbing journalistic slip-ups. The errors—running the gamut from hilarious to tragic—include “Fuzzy Numbers” (when numbers and math undermine reporting) “Obiticide” (printing the obituary of a living person), and “Unintended Consequences” (typos and misidentifications that create a new, incorrect reality). While some of the errors are laugh-out-loud funny, the book also offers a serious investigation of contemporary journalism’s lack of accountability to the public, and a rousing call to arms for all news organizations to mend their ways and reclaim the role of the press as honest voice of the people.

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