In John Kampfner’s article, we stated that Alastair Campbell prevailed upon Lord Butler to tone down important sections of his report on intelligence used in the buildup to the Iraq war. We are happy to accept that this is not so, and that Mr Campbell, who left Downing Street in 2003, played no role in [...]
Does humble pie have swedes in it? Hereabouts it does. We’re sorry if you tried to make a swede cake based on the recipe we published on Saturday, because it wouldn’t have gone well. A production error sabotaged the recipe. We contrived to merge the last three items, which should have run with the following [...]
TMZ and Jackson coverage: An article in Friday’s Section A about how gossip website TMZ scooped the mainstream media, including the Los Angeles Times, on the news of Michael Jackson’s death said The Times bannered the news on its website at 2:51 p.m. Thursday. In fact, the home-page banner went up at approximately 3:15 p.m. [...]
An article entitled "When bankruptcy trustees ‘run amok,’ " published on page B6 of the June 24, 2009, edition of The Globe and Mail, contained a statement that judicial officials have ruled that Mr. Edward White, who is a licensed trustee in bankruptcy, "lied to regulators." That is incorrect. A statement to that effect was [...]
I can’t vouch for when this appeared in the Argus Observer, but it appears to be a legit scan of a correction: Thanks, David and Criggo.com! Report an error
Our critic mistakenly said that an ice age "marked the death of the dinosaurs," rather than their advent. In fact, neither is true. The text of the review has been updated. Link *Correction July 3: Speaking of failure, the word "Jurassic" was misspelled in this headline. It has been corrected. Thanks, Kate! Report an error
A story Sunday about a casting call for the game show "Deal or No Deal" in East Hanover erroneously stated that Kathy Shasa, of Rockaway, named her son Duncan because of her love of Dunkin’ Donuts. It was actually her cat that was named Duncan. Shasa’s last name was also misspelled as "Shaysa." Report an [...]
A news brief reported that a California couple arrived home to find a bear eating a 2lb box of chocolates purloined from their fridge. A sheriff’s sergeant added that the bear had also tried without success to open a bottle of champagne. Our headline – Bear necessity: couple catch chocaholic grizzly, 30 June, page 17 [...]
By John E. McIntyre A reader of my column on how publications deal with corrections (“Daddy, where do corrections come from?") addressed a point that regularly bedevils editors: Should corrections identify who made the error? The issue has been described at some length in the article “Who takes the fall for errors?” by Kathy English, [...]
In a television review published on 21 April of a programme entitled The Tattie Howkers, which dealt with issues surrounding migrant agricultural workers, we stated: "There are still agricultural workers coming to Scotland from countries such as Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. They’re brought over by recruitment bosses such as Bernard Gaughan – grandson of Irish [...]
