Abstract
In 1972, The New York Times adopted the policy of running daily corrections in a fixed part of the paper. The idea of corrections, and a call for increased accountability more generally, had been circulating for a few years. This article examines internal communication from the Times that sheds light on how the paper's editor, A.M. Rosenthal, made the decision to turn the idea into policy. A number of factors, including an essay by Daniel Patrick Moynihan and prodding by the journalism reviews (MORE) and The Columbia Journalism Review, influenced Rosenthal. Wendy Wyatt's discursive theory of press criticism and Daniel Hallin's spheres of consensus, controversy, and deviance inform this article's discussion of how outside influence works. Coming from the “paper of record,” the Times's decision to enact the corrections policy had a snowball effect, and within a few years, running a regular corrections box became commonplace among American newspapers.
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