Is Rachel Maddow sincere?

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86. Here's the thing.

She TELLS you that she admits her mistakes, and demonstrates it by admitting some mistakes. However, that does not mean that she admits all her mistakes. She is doing a marketing job. Here's how Somerby describes it (but he is not talking about Maddow).


"Sometimes, news orgs do self-correct: If their mistakes are sufficiently trivial, big news orgs do self-correct. With regard to the killing of Martin, the New York Times offered this self-correction on April 2:

CORRECTIONS (4/2/12): An article on Thursday about how Skittles, the candy Trayvon Martin was carrying when he was killed, has become a symbol of protest rendered incorrectly the name of a powdered drink that also became a symbol of protest after the cult leader Jim Jones laced it with cyanide to kill more than 900 people in Guyana in 1978. It is Flavor Aid, not Flavor-Aid.

Thank goodness they straightened that out!

As a general rule, big news orgs will correct their own mistakes as long as the mistakes are trivial."

http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2012/04/carr-wreck-does-press-self-correct.html

Correct a few mistakes, and always remind people that you correct your mistakes, and you can build a reputation as somebody who corrects their mistakes.