RageBoy, everyone’s Chief Blogging Officer, has a good example (involving something I wrote) of how errors creep into the media: The humor was missed, the main point was ignored in favor of the inflammatory one, and the nesting of the quote was flattened.

The point isn’t that the media sometimes make mistakes. We all know that. For me, the point is that it was too small an error for the medium to acknowledge. I suppose I could have written a letter and they would have run it in their corrections box. But that would have been so long after the event that, with a mistake this size, who would have remembered the context or cared?

But, had it been a blog that got it wrong, the blogger would have fixed it immediately, probably with a little embarrassed aside.

So, while bloggers may get more facts wrong, our corrections are finer-grained. And, of course funnier.

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