Archive for October 2009

Making sense of a milestone

In an Oct. 1 story about the world’s biggest wind farm opening, The Associated Press incorrectly quoted Patrick Woodson, an officer for E.ON Climate and Renewables North America. He said, “This is truly a significant milestone for us,” not “This is truly sign milestone for us.” Link  Report an error

The forbidden food

Australian author and journalist Margaret Simons spotted this recent clarification in the Border Mail: The Game Meats Company at Myrtelford is a halal-accredited organisation which processes only goats, emus, ostriches and deer…At no stage did export operations manager Rick Cavedon say Senator Fielding had ’saved our bacon’. Thanks, Kevin!  Report an error

Retraction

On July 24, 2009, Cityfile published an article entitled “Jim Dolan To Kill Christmas In July?” which contained speculation on the fate of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular starring the Radio City Rockettes. Click here for an important update on this article. On July 27, 2009, Cablevision, Madison Square Garden, and Cablevision chief executive James [...]

Must be from the Really New Testament

AN incorrect Thought for the Day was published yesterday. The Bible Society SA, which provides the Thought, was not responsible. It should have read: “Lord God, you lead me along good and right paths in life.” Psalm 23:3 – Bible for Today. Mark 7:21-23, from the Bible for Today, reads: “Out of your own heart [...]

Tried in the press

ON March 24 under the headline “Football conmen who dealt in fakes” we stated that Gary Hayes and Anthony Shields conned sports fans by selling fake signatures of Liverpool football stars. We wish to clarify that the men were convicted on the basis that they failed to exercise due diligence in relation to the memorabilia [...]

They don’t know Hugh he is

A report in the “Arts, Briefly” column on Tuesday about a confrontation between a star of the Broadway play “A Steady Rain” and an audience member whose cellphone rang during a performance misstated the star’s surname at two points. As noted elsewhere in the report, he is Hugh Jackman, not Jackson. Link  Report an error