| ▲ | maxbond 3 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
No, admitting fault as soon as possible makes a big difference. It's essential to restoring credibility. If they had waited until Monday the thread would be filled with comments criticizing them for waiting that long. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | g947o 43 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/um-what-happened-to-th... > we probably won't have something to report back until next week. The forum thread is locked. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | icegreentea2 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Yeah, but the problem is that by not making it clear that additional actions may be coming, they're barely restoring credibility at all, because the current course of action (pulling the article and saying sorry) is like the bare minimal required to avoid being outright liars - a far cry from being credible journalists. All they've done is leave piles of readers (including Ars subscribers) going "wtf". If they felt the need to post something in a hurry on the weekend, then the message should acknowledge that, and acknowledge that "investigation continues" or something like that | |||||||||||||||||
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