Verify, Verify, Verify
February 5th, 2007 by Dan GillmorCyberJournalist.net: TV news stations air incorrectly identified ferry video from YouTube. A number of Canadian television news broadcasts aired a user-submitted video clip falsely labelled as a ferry battling rough seas in the Cabot Strait, reviving questions about how news organizations handle user-submitted content. The reports prompted some passengers to cancel their bookings.
One or two lessons here for traditional news organizations — and the rest of us?
Accuracy matters. That includes fact-checking. When you aren’t sure of the original source, this goes triple.
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