A story regarding a court hearing for Jody McIntyre, which appeared in the Jan. 5 edition of the Times-Journal, contained incorrect information. He took a swing at the complainant and there is no court order banning communication between McIntyre and the complainant. The Times-Journal regrets any confusion this may have caused. Link Report an error
Frankie Vaughan was not celebrating his 81st birthday yesterday. The singing legend died in September 1999 (Page 37, February 3). Report an error
This week marks the release of the US paperback edition of the Regret the Error book. Order your copy here. In addition to a lower price, the paperback includes a new introduction by me and the best corrections and apologies of 2007-08. We also corrected the errors identified in the hardcover. (Read and subscribe to [...]
Canoe, one of the biggest news sites in Canada, mistook a Canadian Press reporter for a man facing four terrorism-related charges. Steve Proulx and Steve Faguy noted the error and provided this screengrab: Here’s the man on trial: After fixing the photo (but not adding a correction), the site eventually removed the page. Nice. Final [...]
Two recent columns by newspaper ombudsmen caught my eye. Kathy English, public editor of the Toronto Star, wrote her latest column about the paper’s policy regarding the “unpublishing” of articles. An excerpt: … Generally, the Star believes that unpublishing is a serious act as it erases the online history of the Star’s journalism. The Star’s [...]
An article about the Super Bowl halftime show on Page D6 of Friday’s Sports Daily section misspelled President Barack Obama’s name. Link Report an error
Hanif Malik: In 7/7 bombers got Children in Need money (20 August, page 8) we reported that funds given by BBC’s Children in Need to the Leeds Community School Charity were fraudulently passed on to a neighbouring bookshop, where two of the London bombers worked, to fund their radical Islamist propaganda and for terrorist training [...]
An article on Wednesday about a support group for women dating or married to men in the banking industry misspelled the surname of a prominent Wall Street investor in referring to the effect that significant financial news has on a partner’s mood. The investor is Warren E. Buffett, not Buffet. Link Report an error
ING Group of the Netherlands will book a fourth-quarter loss of about $5.2 billion when it posts its earnings on Feb. 18, not $52 billion, as originally reported. Link Report an error
A front-page story in Saturday’s paper incorrectly stated that incumbent GOP Chairman Mike Duncan had “experience with a white country club.” Katon Dawson, a hopeful for the chair-manship, had been a member of an all-white country club, which was said earlier in the story. The story also should have said Michael Steele was a former [...]
A Jan. 24 article about tattoo artist Kat Von D wrongly referred to her as a former exotic dancer. In fact, the reality TV celebrity has never worked as an exotic dancer. The Star regrets the error. Link Report an error
“My trip to Canada is all fond kisses” (Comment, Scottish edition, last week) described the Fraser River as being in Halifax but it actually flows through British Columbia and reaches the Pacific near Vancouver. Halifax is on the Atlantic coast. Link Report an error
In a Jan. 26 “Sports Nut,” Charles P. Pierce originally referred to the Eternal Word Television Network’s “late Mother Angelica.” While she no longer makes live appearances on the air due to her ill health, Mother Angelica is still living. Link Report an error
Santa Rosa Chevrolet, an auto dealership in Santa Rosa, Calif., isn’t seeking taxpayer assistance and has no plans to consolidate or close, according to Aytac Ercen, director of operations for Ferro Automotive Group, which owns the dealership. Photos of the dealership were incorrectly published with a Jan. 26 U.S. News article on California towns offering [...]
A letter published in the Times-Picayune: Re: “Miserable? Hopeless? Dangerous? Readers slam the sportswriter who slimed Metairie,” Living, Jan. 28. Due to a poor turn of phrase — or lack of a turn of phrase — I seem to have become very unpopular in Metairie for suggesting in a Danny Granger profile that Metairie wasn’t [...]
ON December 14, 2008, in an article concerning Deirdre Noonan’s successful weight loss using the ClubOptiSlim dieting system in which Ms Noonan dropped from a size 20 to a size 12, we incorrectly stated that her weight had been 20 stone when she was expecting her son Jake. In fact she had been 18 stone [...]
Cathy Carretta was murdered but she was not among the women killed at Ecole Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989. Incorrect information appeared in a photo caption yesterday. The Post regrets the error. Link Report an error
