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🗓️ 3 January 2014

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.
0:04.5	Brooke Gladstone is away this week.
0:06.7	I'm Bob Garfield.
0:08.1	And I begin the new year with bad news.
0:11.1	No, not unpleasant news.
0:13.1	You can get that anywhere.
0:14.5	I'm saying bad news.
0:16.6	News delivered badly, plus the corrections or apologies that followed.
0:21.8	Yes, in a bittersweet annual ritual, we are joined once again by Pointer's Craig Silverman,
0:27.8	author of The Regret the Error blog, for a roundup of the worst media mistakes of the past 12 months.
0:34.9	Craig, welcome back to the show.
0:36.8	Thank you.
0:37.3	There was a correction in November from the Patriot News of Harris, 12 months. Craig, welcome back to the show. Thank you.
0:42.4	There was a correction in November from the Patriot News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
0:47.2	which was notable for two things, actually, being more of an amplification than a correction,
0:51.4	and also for being exactly 150 years late.
0:57.0	The Patriot News is famous for being a paper that actually panned the Gettysburg address when it first was delivered. And they figured that, well, with the anniversary of the Gettysburg
1:02.5	address coming up, maybe it's time for us to really address what happened. They published a
1:06.5	correction, and it reads, in the editorial about President Abraham Lincoln's speech delivered November 19th, 1863 in Gettysburg, the Patriot and Union failed to recognize its momentous importance, timeless eloquence, and lasting significance.
1:22.2	The Patriot News regrets the air.
1:24.6	The retraction so amused the people at Saturday Night Live that they devoted a
1:31.2	segment of a weekend update to the supposed author of the original review. It sounded like this.
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