Thursday, October 18, 2007
Tribs Errors
Looking over the article that the Chicago Tibune released on regards to the upcoming presidential race between Al Gore and Hilary Clinton appeared to be somewhat interesting. However, a few things that should have been done differentally... In the Ap stylebook under polls and survey there are certain steps that should be followed when it comes to these type of stories.. First, the story never said how the survey was conducted or how many people were actually interviewed for the story. Second, the author made a big deal about the 51% to 49% when they should have simply expressed the margin of error between the two candidates, which would have been 2%. Thirdly, they didnt say who is sponsoring the poll..
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Blog Archive
-
▼
2007
(78)
-
▼
October
(30)
- News values: A classic man-bites-dog story
- Links for copyeditors (and that would be us)
- Today's headline writing exercises
- Polls and surveys -- this one's better
- Looky, looky what Blogger can do!
- poll corrections
- Poll Analysis
- 5% Increase for Hilary!
- Poll Reveals Trib’s Disappointing Omission
- Polled in what direction?
- Tribs Errors
- Polls poles...
- What the poll?
- Polls, Polls, Polls
- Major Error Blown by the "Windy City" Tribune
- Punch Line Without Context
- Sample html
- Hyper-Link
- test
- Here is a fun link Check it out.
- !?<<<?I think I hate HTML./>>>/??
- Logging on.
- No trouble
- UMMM....YEAH
- W3C standards-based tutorial on HTML -- how cool a...
- Blog
- first post
- What's wrong with this poll?
- Hey Doc,I was able to get on the blogger with no p...
- Welcome to our comm207fall08 blog
-
▼
October
(30)
1 comment:
Good! As you do more links using that bracket-a href code, it'll get to where it's pretty easy for you.
Post a Comment