Professional journalism is supposed to be “factual,” “accurate,” or just plain true. Is it? The last big study of mainstream reporting accuracy found errors (defined below) in 59% of 4,800 stories across 14 metro newspapers. This level of inaccuracy — where about one in every two articles contains an error — has persisted for as long as news accuracy has been studied, over seven decades now.
Read more here (a post by Jonathan Stray ( interactive technology editor for the Associated Press)
