More UK media misidentify someone as a terrorism suspect

Nearly two weeks after the Mirror misidentified a man as one of those charged in the recent terror arrests in London, several other UK media outlets will be apologizing for doing the same thing to a different person.
The Guardian’s Roy Greenslade has a round-up of the incident, noting that ITV News, the Sun, the News of the World, Evening Standard, Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror have all agreed to print an apology to Koser Zaman. Writes Greenslade, "Her picture was used alongside stories that said
she had been arrested. In fact, she was not detained and had nothing
whatsoever to do with terrorist activities. She happens to live in
Walthamstow and used to go to the school that was supposedly attended
by a woman who was arrested."
The Guardian previously printed a story.

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This entry was written by Craig Silverman, posted on August 24, 2006 at 8:00 am, filed under Major Errors, Newspapers, Television. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.
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