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Jeff Bliss of the Hoover Institution passes on two interesting websites that speak to media practices. Regret the Error.org is a great site for reading serious and humorous retractions and corrections contained in newspapers and magazines. Some of the more serious mistakes have cost people their lives, like the recent Newsweek story claiming some interrogators of people captured during fighting in Afganistan and Iraq flushed the Koran down a toilet. The magazine had to retract the statement when confirmation of the allegation could not be obtained. Several people in the Middle East lost their lives in riots that broke out after the allegations swept through the region.

Bliss also passes on an ombundsman piece about the sources National Public Radio relies on when reporting on serious policy issues. It turns out more "experts" from the right--like the Hoover Institution--are interviewed than those from the left (a situation which no doubt helps Bliss' job security!).