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Re:NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A L... by emodendroket on Friday April 27, 2018 @03:08PM (#16943401)
If your story unfairly libels someone, particularly a private individual, that presents its own ethical challenges, doesn't it?
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Re:NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A L... by mcherm on Friday April 27, 2018 @04:00PM (#16943824)
Not at all. One could do as NPR has done in this case: Remove the original story and replace it with a statement of why it has been retracted. Nothing is hidden, and the incorrect story is removed.
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Re:NPR Retracts Story 'The Man Who Spent $100K To Remove A L... by emodendroket on Saturday April 28, 2018 @10:25AM (#16947768)
I guess my concern is someone looking you up and the results being dominated by results like "Joe Smith, 55, of 22 East Wessex St, caught stealing from orphans" being a problem, even if clicking through shows a correction rather than the original story.
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