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| Yesterday I wrote a post saying that the Brooklyn Nets arena lost more money with the New York Islanders playing there than without the hockey team the prior year. I was wrong. The exact opposite is true. The Barclays Center posted an operating profit of $46 million with the Islanders for the year 2015-16, versus an operating profit of $38 million in 2014-15. |
In the Immediecy of the Internet age, research and writing are done fast and shallow. And proofreading doesn't happen.
No one pays for their news anymore. Whaddya want for free?
I once called up a well-known expert in his field to get the lowdown on a piece of prosumer software. It turned out most of what he told me was wrong. I got a ton of flack for my article, and I had to write a second article correcting my first one at length. Should I have fact-checked what he told me? Yes, but he was the top guy I'd go to if I needed to fact-check stuff in his field. So yeah, I fucked that up, but neither I nor my editors saw the problem until we got readers writing in to correct me.
To this day I don't know whether he gave me wrong info deliberately or innocently -- but I've never used him as an expert source again, and never will. And I'm sure he doesn't care.
Dont scream fake news then. People make mistakes. That's different than intentionally false reports.