Newpaper Apologies
It always 'gets my goat' when I see newspapers making massive claims on the front page so that they sell lots of newspapers. But when the falsity of those claims is proved, they only publish the apology on about page 9, where nobody is realistically going to see it!
Apolpgise with the same prominence!
Surely the press should have the responsablity to publish the sorry comment with the same colum inches and the same sized headlines as they published the false story to begin with.
Granted, they days that the 'sorry messages' are published the papers will not sell as well, but that one fact may make them a little more careful in the future when it comes to unfounded stories.
On a daily basis, companies and individuals are destroyed by the press talking about what they do not know (some would argue that they do know but publish anyway!) and that there is little authentic ethical brakes that are applied.