If you work in the media, you’re going to get things wrong. Accuracy and timeliness are in conflict, and when you’re dealing with vast amounts of information, accuracy will sometimes suffer. No one is happy about this, but it’s how it is, and this is the tradeoff you implicitly accept when reading news. If you are intolerant of error, prepare to wait months for deeply-researched pieces (which of course carry no guarantee of error-free reporting). Deadspin, it should go without saying, is hardly immune from this: here is an apology for a story we completely botched, and here is a post that I personally got 100% wrong. Sometimes, though, news organizations take things too far. Once upon a time, we ran the Grantland Comments and Corrections Desk as a public service to the then-startup. Three years later, another news startup desperately—desperately—needs our help. Advertisement Vox launched almost nine months ago, pitching the idea that by utilizing constantly updated articles and taking advantage of the internet’s lack of space constraints, they could “explain” the news in an entertaining and informative manner. It was an interesting premise—maybe even a great one—and readers apparently agreed, as Vox’s traffic and revenue numbers are reportedly…