{"id":341,"date":"2008-09-18T12:28:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T17:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/election08.cusjc.ca\/?p=341"},"modified":"2009-04-24T08:11:40","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T13:11:40","slug":"ooops-wrong-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Ooops. Wrong number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JEFF SALLOT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa Sun&#8217;s Greg Weston reports Nanos Research poll numbers today suggesting Stephen Harper&#8217;s Conservatives are on track for a majority.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting from the campaign trail in Quebec, Weston says Nanos found that even among Liberal voters 38 per cent indicate they &#8220;are OK with the prospect of Harper&#8217;s having a majority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Say what?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->An accompanying graphic actually shows 16 per cent of Liberal supporters\u00a0told the pollster they are comfortable with a Harper majority and 12 per cent are somewhat comfortable. Even when you add those together it is just 28 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Weston said in an email it was just a typo. He hit a numeral\u00a0three instead of two.<\/p>\n<p>Typos happen. Did I ever tell you about the time I got the decimal place wrong in a story about new taxi fares in Toronto? \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The challenge for Sun Media will be to see how quickly editors fix the error in the online version of Weston&#8217;s story. By midday, the online piece still had the wrong number. To err is human, to fix errors quickly is good journalism.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jeff Sallot teaches journalism at Carleton University. A former Ottawa bureau chief for The Globe and Mail, he has covered nine federal election campaigns and is a life member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JEFF SALLOT The Ottawa Sun&#8217;s Greg Weston reports Nanos Research poll numbers today suggesting Stephen Harper&#8217;s Conservatives are on track for a majority. Reporting from the campaign trail in Quebec, Weston says Nanos found that even among Liberal voters 38 per cent indicate they &#8220;are OK with the prospect of Harper&#8217;s having a majority.&#8221; Say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election2008","category-election-2008-faculty-links","category-election-2008-media-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}