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| Department of Corrections, and Not |
| By krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - Paul Krugman |
| Published: 01/21/2014 |
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So Bret Stephens of the WSJ has contacted the Times to protest my remark, in today’s column, that his error in using nominal incomes has not been corrected on the WSJ’s website. I actually anticipated something like this, and saved a copy of his original column as it appeared yesterday, just in case a correction suddenly appeared. But it turns out that this isn’t the nature of Mr. Stephens’s protest. Instead, he points to an online post he put out admitting, with a minimum of grace, that using nominal incomes was wrong. Sorry, but that’s not what I — or, if I may speak for my employer, The New York Times — calls a correction. What, after all, is the purpose of a correction? If you’ve misinformed your readers, the first order of business is to stop misinforming them; the second, so far as possible, to let those who already got the misinformation know that they were misinformed. So you fix the error in the online version of the article, including an acknowledgement of the error; and you put another acknowledgement of the error in a prominent place, so that those who read it the first time are alerted. In the case of Times columnists, this means an embarrassing but necessary statement at the end of your next column. Read More. |
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