[rbanffy]

> As a useful rule of thumb, the New York Times prints retractions.

And, yet, a lot of the US public opinion is shaped by Fox News...

[giantg2]

Do other tv/cable news networks print retractions? I can't remember any, but maybe they have a specific webpage you have to go to in order to see it? I doubt any of the non-news programs on those networks do, and those comprise the majority of the programming. So maybe it's just hard to find for the little bit of actual news.

[rbanffy]

> I doubt any of the non-news programs on those networks do

My impression is they only have opinion programs and no news reporting whatsoever.

[giantg2]

I'm not sure since I get most of my news online. I thought they had like 2 hours per day that were non-opinion news.

[rbanffy]

The HN crowd is not the typical Fox News audience.

[knownjorbist]

In this very thread they are regurgitating talking points from fox punditry.

[giantg2]

I don't just mean Fox. MSNBC, etc seems to mostly be talk shows too.

[knownjorbist]

This is exactly correct.

[fortuna86]

Stories online, when altered, are labeled as such with corrections.

Several outlets have been caught scrubbing past headlines that were proven false, but that's more an indictment on them.

[giantg2]

"Stories online, when altered, are labeled as such with corrections."

I get that. But how do the TV news programs do it? I don't remember them starting with, or including at all, a corrections segment.

[fortuna86]

Rarely. Most news isn't "breaking" on TV, even if they do they refer to the online story. So that's where stories are corrected, because that's the official record.

[giantg2]

Do they actually refer people to the online story, or do you just mean they are using that story to regurgitate to the viewers? I highly doubt most of the viewers are recieving the corrections if they're only given online.

Yeah, when there is breaking news it seems there's a ton of speculation and bad information given.