Last week, Jonathan Peters was emailed an interesting story by the Radio Television Digital News Association, but 18 hours later, the link didn’t work anymore. The story “You can’t FOIA us, we own you” was removed from RTDNA’s website because of inaccuracies, but there was no editor’s note or explanation of why the story was removed, leading to confusion by those who were lead to the dead link. Poynter’s Kelly McBride says that while removing stories is rare, publishers should be forthcoming about the reasons: “In general, if a story is completely wrong, I think it’s okay to unpublish. But you have to replace it with a note saying that the very premise of the story was false and the story could not be corrected.”
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