Journalism's mistakes, both serious and comical, have long been the focus of Craig Silverman's Recent the Error web site, which recently moved to the Romenesko-less Poynter Institute site. The Year in Media Errors and Corrections is his first big effort at his new home. It includes multiple Obama/Osama mixups, a rundown of year's plagiarists, and Salon's retraction of a 2005 article linking autism and vaccines, written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Read them and weep.
December 27, 2011