Is it really so hard to properly correct your mistake on tv?! An audio clip was broadcasted on the "Today" show of a statement by Andrew Zimmerman, from the Trayvon Martin case. The "Today" show quoted him saying, “This guy looks like he’s up to no good. ... he looks black.” What Zimmerman actually said was,
“This guy looks like he’s up to no good. Or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.” The dispatcher then asks, “O.K., and this guy — is he white, black or Hispanic?” Mr. Zimmerman pauses and replies, “He looks black.”
Therefore, what the "Today" show broadcasted was dead wrong. "The clip was first broadcast on March 22, but no one noticed until it was rebroadcast on March 27. Later, when word of the misleading edit got out, everyone from Sean Hannity to Jon Stewart reacted with disbelief, with good reason."
This went on to criticizing all the news channels for all the mistakes made in the past. All of this goes to show that every aspect of the media makes mistakes, the problem is the lack of correction. The "Today" show never corrected its mistake on air. Usually when a mistake is made in the media, it is not corrected in the original form it was made. Such as newspapers; usually, they correct mistakes online, not in print. The New York Times has an entire space on thier web page for corrections to print. Why is it that these media sources do not make corrections in the original form it was released? That is what we should be expected look for when we actually expect a correction. This leads to much controversy and complaints from the general public.