Comments on: Archives pose digital dilemma

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:04:48 +0000

Digitization of publications is the emerging trend and most of the news publishers are using this feature. There is a website which I’ve recently called http://www.pressmart.net provides the digitization services for all print publications. Publishers doesn’t have the digitization feature can utilize the services of pressmart.net

By: dpotter

dpotter — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:04:59 +0000

I agree that you can’t “undo” publication, but the stakes are higher now that inaccurate stories can live on forever and be found so easily by anyone using a search engine. That raises the potential for errors to cause people harm for years. Editors at the New York Times are wrestling with this dilemma, but as the paper’s public editor puts it: “The choices all seem fraught with pitfalls. You can’t accept someone’s word that an old article was wrong. What if that person who was charged with abusing a child really was guilty? Re-report every story challenged by someone? Impossible, said Jonathan Landman, the deputy managing editor in charge of the newsroom’s online operation: there’d be time for nothing else.” At this point, the Times is correcting even very old errors if a person can offer proof. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/opinion/26pubed.html?ex=1346385600&en=6a1

By: tracy

tracy — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:56:20 +0000

Print and online media should abide by the same ethics. Once a story or photo is printed, it can’t be undone. My first thought is that it should be the same for electronic media, but now I’m not so sure. If we can fix a mistake, why leave it out there? That’s a tough question!