A few days ago, I wrote about how NBC News fails at basic statistics. They were confusing '82% of BLM supporters are black' with '82% of blacks support BLM'. Since then, they have corrected their article.
From:
Eighty-two percent of the respondents in support of Black Lives Matter in the most recent poll were Black.
To:
Eighty-two percent of Black respondents in the most recent poll said they supported Black Lives Matter.
Interestingly, they also introduced a new error.
From:
Since then, public opposition to Black Lives Matter has risen after the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin
To:
Since then, public support to Black Lives Matter has continue to decline, including after the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin
To their credit, it was not a stealth edit:
CORRECTION (Nov. 22, 2:29 p.m.): A previous version of this article mischaracterized the respondents to the survey who said they support the Black Lives Matter movement. Eighty-two percent of the respondents who are Black support the movement, not 82 percent of overall respondents.
How do I know this was a response to what we wrote about the article? The article itself is from 16 November. I wrote my criticisms on 21 November. The article was changed the next day. Quite a coincidence otherwise. We're definitely being watched by not-so-friendly eyes.
Let them watch. They can copy off our homework all they like. They just wont get the final draft, right?
Those are pretty obvious errors so it's possible they became aware of it some other way. But I don't doubt that journalists lurk around here so maybe you're right that your post led to the correction.
You're right. I think it was my post because they suddenly changed the contents nearly a week after first posting it. One would hope that this is obvious to anyone, but apparently not to journalists.
Some of the prosecutor speeches from the rittenhouse trial seemed like they were pulled right off of the internet.
I think maybe the news caught up to the existence of something called "the web" and a communication medium known as "internet forums"...