Corrections
Being wrong on a site that is never right
Everything here is made up on purpose, so “this article is not true” is not a correction. The premise underneath it is not made up, though, and neither is the source credited at the foot of every story. That is where this site can actually be wrong.
What counts as an error
- The source link is wrong, dead, or points at a different story from the one the piece was built on.
- The real premise was misread, so the satire is aimed at something the source does not actually say.
- A statistic, quotation or event was invented and then presented as though it had been sourced.
- A piece takes a private individual, or a real person’s private life, as its subject rather than a public institution or someone’s public conduct.
- A piece could be read as genuine reporting — if the absurdity is not evident from the first paragraph, that is a failure of the writing, not of the reader.
What happens then
A story that fails on any of those is corrected or withdrawn. It is not quietly reworded to look as though it had always said something else.
There is no corrections desk
This page sets out the standard so that a reader can tell what would count as a failure of it. It does not give you an address to write to, because there is not one to give: no inbox is staffed here, no log of past corrections is kept, and no response time would be honest to promise. If that changes, this paragraph is what changes with it.
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