It’s rare for a program to dedicate an entire episode to retracting a previous episode and to issue a press release explaining why. “This American Life” has put time and resources into retracting “Mr. Daisey Goes to the Apple … Read more
Fact checking is a real process, but what “This American Life” did wasn’t fact checking.
When the news broke that “This American Life” was retracting the episode “Mr. Daisey Goes to the Apple Factory,” Ira Glass made an effort to … Read more
Hat tip to the folks at the great Retraction Watch blog for spotting this notable Slate retraction from Wednesday night:
On Feb. 17, 2012, Slate published an article titled “The Celltex Affair: An Ethics Scandal Strikes the World of Bioethics.” Because of
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Dominion Post retracts story that ignored ‘basic principles of reporting’:
On January 30 we ran a story about a 17-year-old Pakistani woman who claimed she had been forced into marriage and held hostage by her ex-husband and his family in Newtown, Wellington.
The story relied on a detailed account from the woman herself that was supported by ethnic women’s support organisation Shakti. We subsequently received information, visual evidence and other material from the ex- husband and his family, which casts considerable doubt over the woman’s allegations.
The Dominion Post acknowledges that some basic principles of reporting were not adhered to and it retracts the woman’s allegations.
The Dominion Post apologises to the ex-husband and his family for any embarrassment and humiliation the story may have caused them.
KQED, a public radio station based in San Francisco, has for 13 years been publishing first person commentaries under the Perspectives banner. The NPR member station airs roughly 250 Perspectives a year, and KQED communications director Scott Walton said this week … Read more
American Public Media’s “Marketplace” program has retracted a commentary it aired this week from a man who’s been camping out at Occupy Oakland and claimed to be an ex-Army sniper.
Leo Webb’s commentary, “Returning veteran has few marketable … Read more