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WNOX, a beacon in radio history
In my Google Alerts over the weekend was a piece from the Arcane Radio Trivia blog on the history of WNOX. It reminded me of Knoxville’s rich radio history, particularly with WNOX, the first radio station in Tennessee (yes the first) and the 10th (or the eighth depending on who is counting) in the nation.…
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Fixing errors online needs some correcting at news organizations
We in the press talk a great game about correcting our errors, but in the end do a piss-poor job backing it up. (An academic study of corrections found that only two per cent of verified factual errors were corrected by newspapers. Perhaps piss-poor is too generous…) — Craig Silverman The concept of “paper of…
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An ending almost like truth, justice and apple pie
Last month an article, “American as Apple Pie — Isn’t,” was placed in error in Cooks Source, without the approval of the writer, Monica Gaudio. We sincerely wish to apologize to her for this error. We have made a donation at her request, to her chosen institution, the Columbia School of Journalism. In addition, a…