Correcting the Source
This week Washington City Paper’s Erik Wemple goes after our favorite weekly waste of newsprint: The Post’s Sunday Source section.
If you’re not familiar with it, the Sunday Source is some strange amalgamation of the food section, the weekend section, the style/fashion section, and some advice columns thrown in too. Mostly you probably know it as the thin “M” section you toss to get to the coupons and advertising inserts it comes wrapped around.
Wemple points out that given how light it is on content, it has a surprisingly high rate of corrections–in less than two years, it’s had 75 corrections correcting 92 different errors:
Not so bad, you say? Consider that the section is virtually devoid of content.
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