The public’s faith in the media’s accuracy has hit a new low, according to a Pew Research Center poll. And more people think bias is showing in media reports.

The Associated Press’ Michael Liedtke reports:

Nearly two-thirds of Americans think the news…

The tale of a woman swimming across the Atlantic Ocean — “swimming about 2,100 miles in shifts of up to 8 hours” — seemed incredible. Perhaps unbelievable.

The Associated Press has moved the following correction of a story that ran in…

Here’s an example of a mistake in today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch that irritates readers but won’t result in a published correction.  A reader identifying herself as “Ye old schoolmarm” sent an email noting:

“In Madoff story from AP, p. 6, column…

A wayward correction in Sunday’s Post-Dispatch led one reader to ask why it appeared on Page A8 instead of the traditional A2.

Actually, our policy calls for all corrections to appear on A2. We’ve squeezed a bit too much “furniture” —…

An interesting article in today’s Washington Post (”As Campaign Heats Up, Untruths Can Become Facts Before They’re Undone”) examines many of the claims and counterclaims being made by the McCain and Obama camps.

(Post-Dispatch editors are preparing a clarification to run tomorrow…

I was reading a website for journalists this afternoon and came across a posting from the public editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the number of corrections that paper published last year.

“Last year, the AJC published 809 corrections in the…