Pointed out that the Financial Times of the economic paper has mispublished NTT's information for 18 months
Blogger Benjamin Mako Hill points out that the Financial Times, a financial newspaper published in the UK, has been posting incorrect information about the Japanese telecommunications company NTT for 18 months.
The Financial Times has been printing an obvious error on its “Market Data” page for 18 months and nobody else seems to have noticed – copyrighteous
The Financial Times operates an online news site and publishes a traditional paper newspaper on a daily basis. Where there is a mistake is on the economic side of the newspaper, where NTT is listed twice as 'Nippon T&T' and 'Nippon TT' in the list of the world's 500 largest companies published here. Hill points out that the numbers are exactly the same, so it's an obvious mistake.
Mr. Hill first noticed this mistake in early May 2021. I wondered if it was a temporary mistake, and when I looked at the paper about a week ago, there were no mistakes, but I found the same mistake in the paper one day ago. At that time, he thought that it would be fixed someday, but it seems that mistakes have been repeated every day for a year and a half since then.
Looking at the archive, it seems that the error first appeared in the article on May 5, 2021, and it is published not only in the American version but also in the British, European, Asian, and Middle Eastern editions. .
“The Financial Times prints more than 112,000 copies six days a week,” Hill said. It is not an efficient use of resources to devote two pages to market data that quickly becomes outdated and that no one reads. Some argue that it's not because it's useful, but because doing so signals that it's a serious financial paper, but if no one is looking, that's not enough reason. No, it seems long past the time to stop wasting paper and ink like this.”
He also said, ``People who want to know the market price will use the Internet to see real-time numbers without squinting. If such a blatant error persists for so long, it's clear that readers, let alone employees, aren't reading it.'
The Financial Times has been under the Nihon Keizai Shimbun since 2015.
Acquisition of the Financial Times (FT): Our History | Nihon Keizai Shimbun
https://www.nikkei.co.jp/nikkeiinfo/about/ourhistory/archives/190619.html
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