I imagine it's because of the volume of content they process. It's unlikely that
they read every article, so they probably don't know when something is retracted.
I am sure that if they were alerted, they would make the correction... But that's
not really our job either. It's the magazine publisher's job.
Nate Thomas
St. John's HS
Pamela Burke wrote:
> When I discuss the accuracy and reliability of Wikipedia and other
> web 2.0 sources with students, this often comes up and I'm never sure
> how to respond. Here's an example:
> It is known that Stephen Glass fabricated stories he published in
> both the New Republic & Harpers. The New Republic published a letter
> in their magazine retracting his story "Hack Heaven". But when you
> access the original story in both Lexis/Nexis & ProQuest, there is no
> note to alert the reader that the story has been retracted, or that
> elements of the story were fabricated. And of course there have been
> other journalism scandals over the years.
> Why do publishers not alert the readers to acknowledged fabrications?
> It's a database, it couldn't be too hard to flag articles that have
> been retracted after publication, so why don't they do it? They must
> have a reason, any ideas?
> Pamela Burke
> Librarian, Marlboro School
> Marlboro, VT 05344
> http://marlboroschool.net
> SurRural Librarian
> http://lib.surruralist.net/
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