May 31, 2005

Sore Throat

by Nick Montfort · , 8:45 pm

What happens when your journalism classes do a four year investigation into who Deep Throat was, publish their results on the Web, garner huge amounts of press coverage, and then turn out to be wrong?

5 Responses to “Sore Throat”


  1. Gunther Says:
    May 31st, 2005 at 8:52 pm

    Laughing stock?

  2. Jason Scott Says:
    May 31st, 2005 at 10:24 pm

    PASS-FAIL!

  3. tWB Says:
    June 1st, 2005 at 9:55 am

    Your journo students learn the valuable skill called “issuing a retraction.”

  4. Stephen Says:
    June 1st, 2005 at 1:54 pm

    Hopefully you do a follow-up analysis of where your chain of logic fell flat.

  5. Dennis G. Jerz Says:
    June 1st, 2005 at 2:28 pm

    According to USA Today:

    Bill Gaines, the professor who directed the study, said Tuesday that “we have to accept” that they were wrong “because Woodward says so, and he’s the only person who really knows.”

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-05-31-deep-throat-inside_x.htm

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