MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2006
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Well, no journalist ever got a raise for saying, "I got it wrong," notes
Jack Shafer. "The whole incentive structure encourages journalists to deny or otherwise obfuscate the mistakes and miscues they and their publications commit," he writes. He suggests news orgs assign new reporters to botched stories.
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