Blog Herald Column: Do Online Publishers Do Enough To Correct Inaccuracies?
In traditional newspaper publishing, errors are typically corrected the next day, in small print, in a small section inside the paper that lists such errors. Most bloggers have adopted the convention of the “update,� with has many similarities to the print publisher approach. An update is typically an addendum placed at the end of the original post that lists any new information, including corrections. But the original post, including the title, typically remains unchanged.
In an online world driven by search engines that create permanent — and easy to find — records of every inaccuracy, is this practice sufficient?