He says news "increases cognitive errors," but The New York Times, the most heralded newspaper in America, has an entire project devoted to using the news to teach children.
As a despondent fan of the wealthy, klutzy Mets, I agree that their ineptitude should be front-page news ("Strikeouts and Errors Mire High-Priced Mets," April 29).
The New York State Health Department is taking hospitals to task for underreporting incidents like deaths after surgery, unnecessary complications and medical errors (news article, Feb. 13).
"We've not been asked to pull it from the shelves by the publisher, so we won't," he said, predicting that interest in the first edition could rocket following the news about its errors.
Seeking Ways to Reduce Operating Room Errors" (news article, April 1): Writing "NO" on the normal knee is much more comforting to the patient than writing "YES" on the knee to be operated on.
This week's headline news that hospital errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S. is a wake-up call for both hospital leaders and us potential patients.
Once purely theoretical, such consequences were confirmed in recent years when news accounts about errors in anatomic pathology testing began to make national headlines.
Statistics on winners and unforced error counts are commonly reported by the news media, but forced errors are not, even though their inclusion could, at least for fans, provide a more complete representation of the flow of a match.
But the news executives, whatever the errors of election night, have a sound product that is healthy for democracy.
Anyone who's ever been covered in a news story knows that errors creep in to even the best journalists' reports.
