Source: ocregister.com By FRANK MICKADEIT COLUMNIST / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER This is the Thanksgiving column I never thought I’d write. You’ve seen what’s happened to newspapers. As we’ve struggled for relevancy in the digital age with one hand and fought off the recession with the other, we became something less. At the Register, our Web presence grew and we got the most-important …

Source: poynter.org An accusation is often more newsworthy than the recantation. So should a news organization make an effort to ensure the new information is given the same prominence as the original? It’s a question that arose this week after the unnamed man who leveled underage sex allegations against Kevin Clash, the voice and puppeteer of Elmo on “Sesame Street,” recanted …