“I would like to see us say - over and over, until the point has been made - that the newspaper that drops on your doorstep is a partial, hasty, incomplete, inevitably somewhat flawed and inaccurate rendering of some of the things we have heard about in the past 24 hours - distorted, despite our best efforts to eliminate gross bias, by the very process of compression that makes it possible for you to lift it from the doorstep and read it in about an hour. If we labeled the paper accurately, then we would immediately add: But it’s the best we could do under the circumstances, and we will be back tomorrow with a corrected and updated version.”
— From a 1979 speech by Washington Post reporter David Broder, as quoted in Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech by Craig Silverman.
