The Continuing Bizarre Decline in Science Reporting at the New York Times

Re:The Continuing Bizarre Decline in Science Reporting at th... by Barrin92 on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @02:30PM (#28921624)

I don't get it, the Times made an error when it came to a figure in one article and that is, according to the title, a continuing bizarre decline in science reporting?

We could talk about science reporting at the times if we knew how many errors they make in say a thousand science articles compared to a decade ago, or if they're slower to correct them, or correct them less frequently or whatever else.

Up next, the bizarre decline in the quality of blogposting, one guy on substack made a mistake they didn't correct

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Re:The Continuing Bizarre Decline in Science Reporting at th... by nescioquid on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @05:28PM (#28923990)

I had the same reaction at first. The frame of the blog post is the decline in science reporting, but it is a pretext from which to hang this story correction before our eyes and made no attempt to deal with accuracy over time, as you suggest.

However, it was two corrections in one story, and they both seem to have been howlers. If these mistakes were made by the COVID beat reporter, that's important. A better frame might have been something like "Why I'm Skeptical of NY Times Reporting" or "Why I don't trust NY Times Reporting".

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