WE were wrong to report that Sam Griffiths was drunk when he was electrocuted running across railway tracks at Burgess Hill, West Sussex, in the early hours of New Year’s Day, or that he had drunk five cans of beer. The coroner at his inquest concluded that Sam and his friends were “merry as you [...]
In the March 30 issue, an item in the Conventional Wisdom Watch wrongly implied that Richard Holbrooke, the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan in President Obama’s State Department, bore some culpability for the $165 million in bonuses awarded recently to AIG executives for their work over the past year. Although Holbrooke was a member [...]
The last line in the article on Page A1 Sunday, “Rewriting the American Dream” was cut off. The final paragraph is reprinted here. “Most people just want to find a job, work, save money and be happy,” Walle said. “But you find out, eventually, that you’re not really in control of anything. I could wake [...]
A headline with a brief in Thursday’s Hampton Roads section (“Headless body found on tracks in Norfolkâ€) incorrectly described the dead man’s injuries . The body was severed in half. Link Thanks, David! Report an error
“Cameron faces backlash for supporting supertax” (News, last week) described Jan Peter Balkenende as “the Norwegian prime minister”. He is actually the prime minister of the Netherlands. Link Report an error
A profile of King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia in the pictorial graphic headed Who’s coming to London, what they want and what they will be having for dinner (27 March, page 24) was wrongly illustrated with a picture of Prince Bandar, the former Saudi ambassador to the US. In the [...]
A story from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: A Crafton man is suing WPXI-TV over a broadcast story that he claims used his photo when the story was about another man with the same last name. The story, broadcast Sept. 28, was about a South Fayette teacher and coach who resigned last year over what the school [...]
In a story posted March 5 on The Hook, The Tyee reported that B.C. Supreme Court Justice Elliott Myers described a defence argument in a lawsuit involving a parody issue of The Vancouver Sun as, “with respect, inept.†The story was based on oral reasons for judgement delivered in chambers by Justice Myers. A written [...]
We said, “Compare that tripling of risk, a 300 percent increase in death [among smokers], to what the study found about red meat — a 30 percent increase.” In fact, a tripling of risk is a 200 percent increase. Link Report an error
We described the Virgin Mary as dangling the child Jesus on her knee. Dandling was the word we were looking for (The maternal inheritance, 21 March, page 35). Link Report an error
A Science article in the March 23 A-section said that Ronald Reagan was left-handed. Although many lists of left-handed presidents include him, Reagan was right-handed, according to people who knew him. He performed some activities that require dexterity with his left hand, but he wrote with his right, which is the conventional determiner of handedness. [...]
Due to a copy-editing error, a story on Page 1A Saturday about a free-speech suit against the Miami-Dade state attorney incorrectly stated that teenager Leonardo Barquin fired a gun. Barquin was shot twice and collapsed before he bled to death. Link Report an error
Afghanistan was perceived as the 176th least corrupt, rather than most corrupt, government in the world last year. Transparency International’s perceived corruption index ranks countries with the cleanest at the top. Afghanistan was four places from the bottom (Too nice, too weak: how west’s own man fell out of favour, 23 March, page 21). Link [...]
ON MARCH 24, The Dominion Post reported that the Solicitor-General, Dr David Collins, had tried to “slip through” security into the Supreme Court. In fact, unbeknown to the newspaper, the solicitor- general had not attempted to avoid the security measures in place at the Supreme Court. Dr Collins had gone through the same security measures [...]
In Sunday’s City to City series opener on the Canadian community with the most beautiful people, it was noted a writer from the site, Travelers Digest, ranked Montreal as the third best city in the world for good looking women. In fact, while Montreal made the top 10, he originally placed it at 8th place, [...]
A Page One story yesterday about the women’s social networking website CafeMom and its founder, Andrew Shue, referred incorrectly to Shue’s father as deceased. James Shue lives in Indianapolis. Report an error
The March 18 story “Just How Bad Off Is the Republican Party (Part 2)?” originally stated that Kansas Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson would not be running for governor in 2010 because of questions about a relationship with an aide. In fact, Parkinson is not running so that he can tend to his family business. A [...]
The story incorrectly referred to “the late Joan Didion.” Joan Didion has not died. Link Report an error
THE Scottish Sunday Express has enjoyed a long love affair with the people of our nation. It is 81 years since the first edition of this great newspaper rolled off the presses in Glasgow. Over that time, we have established a reputation for crusading journalism built on the twin cornerstones of honesty and integrity. Scottish [...]
Green gaffe: There’s little doubt eco-warriors love a good chat as much as a tree hug, but our digitally dyslexic reporter’s creation of a new organisation was a revelation for verbose greenies (Recycling record comes under fire, page 18, March 23). It is more apt, of course, to discuss recycling with the Conservation Council than [...]
A tribute to Natasha Richardson that praised her passion, devotion and talent and her “bloodlines of greatness” came from Kevin Spacey, not Judi Dench as an editing error made it in Broadway’s lights dimmed for Natasha Richardson, 20 March, page 5. Link Report an error
THE Echo would like to apologise for the article titled ‘Couple talk about illness’ which was printed on Friday, March 13. In the article it describes Asperger Syndrome as an illness. The Echo acknowledges that Asperger Syndrome is definitely not an illness – it is in fact a condition, estimated to affect one in every [...]
In the Late Final edition of the Cape Argus yesterday, several aspects of a judgment delivered by Cape High Court Judge Basheer Waglay were incorrectly recorded. The report related to the murder trial of Booi Marthinus, who was acquitted of the 2007 Rawsonville murder of two-year-old Sonja Brown. During the editing process, parts of the [...]
The headline, “Amnesty says hundreds killed in Gambian witch-hunts”, on a report on page A10 yesterday was inaccurate. The report quoted Amnesty International as saying hundreds of people had been kidnapped in witch-hunts in The Gambia. The report said at least two were known to have died. We regret the error. Report an error
In “Surviving in a warmer world” (28 February, p 28) we said that “9 million people would need 18,000 square kilometres of land to live on”. That figure should, of course, have been 9 billion people, and the area of land 180,000 square kilometres. Link Report an error
