p-- ba href="http://gannettblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/breaking-toll-nears-1000-as-louisville.html" title="Gannett swings the big ax, slashing 1,400 jobs this week"Gannett swings the big ax, slashing 1,400 jobs this week/a:/b Jim Hopkins, the former Gannett (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=GCI" class="ticker" title="GCI"NYSE: GCI/a) chronicling the company's travails, has had a busy two days tallying the 1,400 jobs that are now gone as of this week at the company's ailing newspapers. The job cuts are part of the 3,000 staffers at local papers Gannett said would have to go. Gannet made the a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-gannett-to-slash-more-than-3000-jobs-across-local-papers" title="announcement"announcement/a at the end of October. The latest casualties are at iThe Nashville Tennessean/i (92 of 1,000 jobs cut); iPoughkeepsie Journal/i in New York (59 of 250), and South Carolina's iGreenville News/i (36 of 500). /p p -- ba href="http://www.startribune.com/business/35400639.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU7EaDiaMDCiUZ" title="Star Tribune wants $10 million in union givebacks"Star Tribune wants $20 million in union givebacks/a/b (via a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45aid=155018" title="Romenesko"Romenesko/a): The Minneapolis/St. Paul daily is asking its union to help identify $10 million cost savings by early next month. The paper's execs hope the additional savings will convince lenders to forgive some of nearly $400 million in long-term debt. The $10 million being sought is on top of $20 million the iStar Trib/i has separately asked from contract workers. Chief Executive Chris Harte says that if the union doesn't comply, the paper may have to file for bankruptcy protection. /p p -- ba href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/081201/20081201005554.html?.v=1" title="Canwest relaunches 10 newspaper sites"Canwest relaunches 10 newspaper sites/a/b: After scaling back on print delivery, Canada's largest newspaper publisher is unveiling 10 redesigned newspaper sites. Aside from making simplifying the newspaper sites' navigation, Canwest also is trying put more emphasis on hyperlocal content, including billing its classifieds as "hyperlocal" as well. /p p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=Cm1XnM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=Cm1XnM" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=QvjrO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=QvjrO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=PwdqO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=PwdqO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=Fs8Ao"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=Fs8Ao" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=VbGVO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=VbGVO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=EIEVO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=EIEVO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/474290838" height="1" width="1"/

If you've been paying attention to the political blogosphere or any news about the recent horrific attacks in Mumbai, you may have heard the story that made the rounds about a couple supposedly blaming CNN for potentially giving away their location to the terrorists. It was a hit among CNN-haters, and it got picked up by a variety of mainstream sources, including a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/media-culpa/"the NY Times/a. The only problem? The story is totally bogus. It originated in the publication Wales Online, but after CNN reviewed their footage and couldn't find anything to match the story, it asked the site for an explanation... at which point Wales Online admitted that the story was "not valid," blaming the Press Association from which it got the story. br /br / However, as E-Media Tidbits points out, rather than post an update explaining the error, Wales Online took a different approach: a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31#038;aid=155003" target="_new"it just made the article disappear/a. If you go to the a href="http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/cardiff-news/2008/11/29/we-thought-we-were-safe-then-cnn-stepped-in-91466-22368124/"original link/a for the story, you just get a blank page. This isn't helping the process of correcting errors. Well after the story was discovered to be a fake, plenty of sources were still repeating it. br /br / Sure, it's embarrassing to make a mistake -- especially one that ends up getting so much attention. But simply "disappearing" the story and pretending it never happened is a dreadful solution. If anything, leave the original story up with a clear retraction placed at the top. Hell, maybe use the experience to explain how it happened and what the publication is doing to prevent similar things from happening in the future. The last thing you should do is just pretend the whole mess never happened in the first place. That just makes Wales Online look even less trustworthy.br /br /a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081203/0152403004.shtml"Permalink/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20081203/0152403004.shtml#comments"Comments/a | a href="http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20081203/0152403004op=sharethis"Email This Story/abr / br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=d5639f650e135f09b49abc398e99ab60p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=d5639f650e135f09b49abc398e99ab60p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=d5639f650e135f09b49abc398e99ab60" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?a=gTPeo"img src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~f/techdirt/feed?i=gTPeo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.techdirt.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~4/473980048" height="1" width="1"/