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acroyearIt used to be (and in print it still is) that corrections would be hidden away on some other page, in small print, buried in ads so nobody saw them, or if from a columnist, buried as an appendix to a totally irrelevant subject.
Now, with RSS feeds, the correction gets its own entry in the feed and is therefore given equal weight with new content, allowing it to actually have an impact on the reader rather than through obscurity, keeping the regular reader misinformed. this is an improvement.
case in point, the 'post had an editorial that incorrectly named Shani Davis as the first black athlete to medal in an individual sport at the winter olympics. they corrected it to name Debi Thomas as a medalist (bronze) in '88. Davis was the first to *gold*, not the first to medal.
Now, with RSS feeds, the correction gets its own entry in the feed and is therefore given equal weight with new content, allowing it to actually have an impact on the reader rather than through obscurity, keeping the regular reader misinformed. this is an improvement.
case in point, the 'post had an editorial that incorrectly named Shani Davis as the first black athlete to medal in an individual sport at the winter olympics. they corrected it to name Debi Thomas as a medalist (bronze) in '88. Davis was the first to *gold*, not the first to medal.
