How Sources, Reporters View Math Errors in News.

A study was conducted to investigate the reasons for the tendency of the media to abuse and misuse numbers. Data were drawn from a survey of 1,000 news stories cited in a U.S. metropolitan newspaper to assess the rate of mathematical inaccuracy, to identify the types of errors, to measure the perce...

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Publicado en:	Newspaper Research Journal Vol. 24; no. 4; pp. 49 - 64
Autor principal:	Maier, Scott R.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Newspaper Research Journal Fall2003
Materias:	News & Observer, The (Newspaper) Journalistic errors American journalism American newspapers Content analysis
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