MEDIA MISTAKES IN BOOK FORM: Why isn't ESPN on "Regret the Error?"

CONGRATULATIONS ON THE UPCOMING "REGRET THE ERROR, THE BOOK,"

"NON-FICTION: HISTORY/POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS Journalist and originator of the website RegretTheError.com Craig Silverman's REGRET THE ERROR: How Media Mistakes Pollute and Endanger the Press, an Eats, Shoots and Leaves for the media-centric, with a foreword by blogger Jeff Jarvis, listing hundreds of humorous and shocking media errors, analyzing the history of media mistakes, and examining why today's media climate makes it imperative that the press meet higher standards of accuracy, to Philip Turner at Union Square Press, for publication in fall 2007, by Don Sedgwick of the Transatlantic Literary Agency (world English excluding Canada).

The book will also look at the death of newspaper proofreaders, the emergence and decline of magazine fact checking, and will offer suggestions for how the press can meet a higher standard of accuracy."

(Answer to my question about ESPN and other sports outlets not having a formal on-line corrections page: obviously, the weak, pathetic baseball consumer lets them get away with whatever they want.)sm

• Item about Regret the Error from their website, via Romenesko/Poynter.org

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