Sara Fischer's best news media corrections of 2020

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And they were back at it the next day.

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April 26 was a bad day in Baltimore

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That last one is a perfect example of neutrality bias - the kind of view-from-nowhere reporting that refuses to hold power to account.

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  • April 26, The Baltimore Sun: “The images in the ‘Spot the difference’ feature in the Sunday, April 26, editions were mistakenly the same image and not in fact different. The Baltimore Sun regrets the error.”

I play that sometimes (different paper) and can’t even imagine how frustrating that would be. But also, hilarious. Would’ve been much better if they did it on April 1.

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An earlier version of this article incorrectly described the law that protects hate speech on the internet. The First Amendment, not Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, protects it.
- The New York Times, again (source)

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That’s on par with sending a bunch of kids out to hunt for nonexistent Easter Eggs.

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Watch out for snipes.

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We didn’t get much done that’s for sure :wink:

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So what was Jack Donoghue doing during the interview?

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