In Christopher Scanlan's article "We Stand Corrected: When Good Journalists Make Stupid Mistakes", he discusses Craig Silverman's revelation about how the best way to create accuracy is to expose journalists mistakes. If a journalist is making writing their career, then everything that they write and are sending out into the world, should be edited and made so that there are no mistakes.
As Joe Grimm points out, there can be serious consequences if a journalist makes mistakes, for example, the paper or magazine that they are writing for can be discredited because they no longer are reliable.
However, if a newspaper or magazine really does care about the content that they print out, then they should have editors and a process of evaluating the articles that they are given. That way, if mistakes are not found through the evaluation, then they will be caught be one of the editors.
If mistakes do seep through, it is proven that the public would atleast appreciate if a correction was made in a following issue. Mistakes happen but there is always the possibility of revealing those mistakes and correcting them.
Journalists have the education, a team that helps them improve their work, and the ability to show their work to the world, so they should make sure that this work is corrected and modified if needed.
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