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John, can you clarify what "accountable" means. Does this mean, that when you are wrong, you admit it. Then apologize. What does accountable mean?

For instance, if I told a tale, based on hearsay and misinterpretation, about somebody having a magic purple wand that would selectivly target certain animals in the forest for persecution and later revealed that that it was a harmless water-divining stick, if I was accountable, would I print and apology? How exactly does being accountable manifest?

John, you there? Does ignoring a blogger fall under accountability? Does posting on a subject, then disappearing when somebody makes an inquiry re: your post that you maybe don't want to answer directly, for whatever reason, fall under being accountable?

Just trying to get on the same page here.

John's apparently not going to offer a definition. So...out of default then: Apparently being "accountable" is a swampy, nebulous term that pretty much means whatever the user of the term wants it to mean. In this case, anyone who questions the integrity, motivation or bias of the N&R while not posting under a certifiable birth name.

...Is suspect of NOT being accountable

while remaining mum under inquiry, or not offering amends for wrongs is accountable.

Navigating the idealogic slippery slopes and fetid swamps of Johnnyland is not for the faint of heart, but darn it, I'm going to do it.

Onward Sancho!

You know what else would be NICE???

When the News-Record, and other publications make a retraction, it would be nice for the retraction to be allowed the same space and page placement as the original article. Instead one finds retractions buried in an obsure location.

Why is that John?

spelling correction for above should read:
obscure.......not obsure

We believe that anchoring corrections in one place is actually easier for readers to find, rather than having corrections float all over the paper based on where the mistake occurred.

Most of the corrections we publish concern information that was originally published on an inside page. For instance, today we have a correction of an event occurring at War Memorial Auditorium that originally was published on page C3. We think that publishing that correction on A2, where we publish corrections every time we have them, is more prominent than publishing them where they occur, such as on page C3.

John, you by chance are not hinting around that The Mother of All Corrections by the N&R is imminent, are you?

What a XMAS present that would be. We could frame it and send it out to Tennessee!

Too many people on the Internet post anonymously and gutlessly.

This allows doofi who can't make arguments or use logic to instead focus on throwing stones and mud at people.

Alleged journalists are guilty of this, too. Some of this stems from the dumbing-down of newsrooms that started 25-30 years ago, when employees who couldn't figure out how to do the work decided to redefine the work.

Now newsrooms and articles are far dumber. We've also learned that people who can't improve simply try to redefine the work. People who can't make arguments redefine rather than refute. And they post anonymously and gutlessly.