Editor’s Note: This version corrects the original editorial which implied that physicist Stephen Hawking, a professor at the University of Cambridge, did not live in the UK. Link Oh, but there’s so much more to this Editor’s Note from Investor’s Business Daily. It omits the original, ridiculous statement contained in the editorial. And here it [...]
A sub-headline on page one of last Tuesday’s Herald stated that Attorney General Martha Coakley broomed a conflict-of-interest investigation involving Suffolk University before accepting an honorary law degree from the school. The accompanying story reported that Coakley’s office had obtained concessions from Suffolk while concluding there were no illegalities committed in the case. The Herald [...]
The Chicago Tribune published a slideshow of photos from Lollapalooza. And someone managed to mangle the name of a band that was shown… holding up signs bearing its name: It’s been fixed. The image is courtesy of The Hood Internet’s Twitter feed. Thanks, Julia! Report an error
An article on July 31 about a price increase to $5 for a slice of pizza at Di Fara Pizza in Midwood, Brooklyn, misstated the age of Francesco Taormina, a manager at Rizzo’s Fine Pizza in Astoria, Queens, who criticized the $5 slice. He is 22, not 42. Link Report an error
I thought I’d already posted this remarkable 2005 apology/correction for the Sun (U.K.), but it doesn’t show up in my archives. And since two people sent it to me yesterday, it deserves recognition: IN an article published on The Sun website on January 27 under the headline ‘Gollum joker killed in live rail horror’ we [...]
‘Top Chef’: An article in Sunday’s Calendar section about Bravo’s cooking show "Top Chef" said contestants had "tackled exotic proteins like . . . gooey duck." The species of large edible clam is spelled geoduck. Link Report an error
A story about domestic violence striking a Martinez family incorrectly stated that the son of murder victim Catalina Torres was an orphan. His father is still alive. Link Report an error
From February 8, 2007, the Herald published a number of articles in print and online, including a news blog, concerning Professor Di Yerbury who had served as Vice-Chancellor of Macquarie University for more than 19 years to February 2006. Professor Yerbury has alleged that the articles depicted her as dishonestly commingling her private art collection [...]
A Nov. 14, 2004, column about the death of Yasser Arafat included an unverified quotation attributed to former Israel Defence Forces chief of staff Moshe Yaalon. Yaalon, now Israel’s strategic affairs minister, was quoted in that 2004 column as saying in 2002 that "the Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of [...]
In the June 29 " Books " column, Johann Hari originally included two phrases that could have given the incorrect impression that Richard Bernstein has attended, or approves of, brothels where women are coerced. This was not Hari’s intention or Slate’s. We have amended these sentences to clarify that Bernstein does not approve of forced [...]
We ran a story on 3rd September last year about serious breaches of hygiene rules uncovered by health inspectors at Canvey Island food outlets. We said Dave’s Plaice, a fish and chip shop owned and run by Mrs Shirley Knox, had been slammed by health inspectors for a series of shocking breaches of food hygiene [...]
In "Putting the boot in over BBC’s web footage" (Business, last week), we described John Nolan as "boss" of ITN. He is, in fact, a member of its press office. Apologies. Link Report an error
The new burger joint to open in Invercargill is called Devil Burger, not Devilled Burgers. We are sorry for the mistake. Report an error
Please enjoy these juvenile yet amusing Friday treats. An unfortunate headline: The headline has since been changed to read "Kiwanis present award." Boo. Thanks to Andrew and Deann! The image is via HuffPo. And here’s an unfortunate choice of words from Martha Stewart Living, via Bike Snob NYC: And here’s the graphic that accompanied it, [...]
In an obituary of Walter Cronkite on Page A1 July 18, The Associated Press, relying on published accounts that included Cronkite’s memoir, reported erroneously that "cronkiter" was used in Sweden and the Netherlands as a term for "TV anchorman." Olof Hulten, a journalism educator in Sweden, and Radio Netherlands Worldwide’s Expert Desk say the term [...]
Gawker looked through the new, digitized archives of the Village Voice and turned up a gem of an excerpt. John Cook found what he describes as a "hilarious 1956 farewell column from Norman Mailer after he got fed up with all the typos Voice editors were inserting into his copy…" Here, via Gawker, is an [...]
An August 4 article on the effect parasites have on sexual reproduction attributed a quote to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. In fact, the quote was from another Matthew Broderick movie, WarGames. Link Report an error
On the Letters Page of the Irish Independent on Thursday, July 23 last, a picture was used featuring a girl walking in a forest. This was a photograph entitled ‘Girl in Forest’ from the exhibition ‘No Directions’ by Anthony Byrne in the Back Loft gallery last March. We apologise to Mr Byrne for the unauthorised [...]
THE photograph accompanying yesterday’s Page 1 report, ‘CEO dies during Osim triathlon’, was not of Mr Calvin Lee Wee Sing, chief executive officer of Deutsche Telekom Asia, who died on Sunday. The photograph was of Mr Christopher Lim, Vice-President of ICT Operations and a member of the management board of T-Systems Singapore. We regret the [...]
This was on the front page today’s St. Petersburg Times: Bill O’Reilly has not accused President Barack Obama of racism. An article in Sunday’s Perspective section about the National Association of Black Journalists incorrectly included the Fox newscaster in a list of commentators who have publicly accused the president of racism. Click on this image [...]
In last week’s Feral Beast, in the context of an item about a British presenter on Iran’s Press TV, Yvonne Ridley, we referred to a remark by her which implied that Dominic Lawson had been an MI6 agent. Mr Lawson, now a columnist on our sister paper, the Independent, has pointed out that this false [...]
In a July 31 story about doctors who own their own scanning equipment to conduct tests, the initial headline mischaracterized some tests as “useless” or “needless.” The story did not characterize the tests that way. Link Report an error
A panel accompanying a motor racing article in early editions predicted 70 degrees Celsius at the Hungaroring circuit near Budapest – "hot enough", as a reader pointed out, "to kill the spectators and bog down the cars in a molten race track". Later editions revised this to 26C (Hungaroring circuit and standings, 25 July, page [...]
Studio not involved in bribery case: A story in Thursday’s editions detailed the sentencing of former state film official Mark Smith for bribery. The story was accompanied by a photo of the Louisiana Film Studios in Harahan. The studio was not involved in the case. Link Report an error
IN an article on 3 February 2008 headlined "Evil on benefits" we described Shakil Akhtar as the "treasurer" of a militant Islamic cell responsible for funding terrorism. Mr Akhtar is not involved in the funding of terrorism or a member of a militant cell and we apologise to him for the embarrassment and distress caused [...]
