Former minor pro hockey player Justin Bourne is an advocate of gay rights and outspoken about the challenges athletes face when “coming out” in pro sports. His passion for the cause stems in part from the fact that he has a gay family member and from some of the attitudes he saw during his own [...]
In Thursday’s Herald we reported that Timaru Girls’ High students had been caught smoking cannabis on the school grounds. The school has confirmed there was a drug-related incident involving two students, but they had not been caught smoking cannabis on school grounds. Report an error
In the Yorkshire Evening Post of June 11th, we reported that a court had been told that Roman Abramovich had threatened to kill Ken Bates. The allegations were repeated in our online articles. We now accept that such threats were not made and should not have been published in this manner. We wish to set [...]
A film column last Sunday about the different stories of poverty in two new films misstated, at one point, the title of one of the movies. As the article noted elsewhere, it is “The Blind Side,†not “The Blind Spot.†(The other film that examines issues of poverty is “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ [...]
John Updike, not Irving, wrote the novel The Witches of Eastwick, which has recently been turned into a TV series (Cable girl, 24 November, page 27, G2). Link Report an error
Cap-and-trade program: An article in Wednesday’s Section A on California’s cap-and-trade program quoted Greg Karras, senior scientist for Communities for a Better Environment, as saying that the program was “institutionalized environmental justice.” Karras called it “institutionalized environmental injustice.” Link Report an error
An article in some copies of Wednesday’s Local & Business section about security issues at the Osceola County Jail unintentionally included a quotation in Spanish that contained a vulgarity. The use of the word did not meet the Sentinel’s language standards, and we apologize. Report an error
The Nov. 25 editorial “Climate of denial” stated that Phil Jones, director of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, and Michael E. Mann of Pennsylvania State University wrote in an e-mail exchange about organizing a boycott of an academic journal until it fires a “troublesome editor.” Though Mr. Mann wrote of [...]
Because of an editing error, a brief on Page 2B Tuesday incorrectly characterized an Internet crime. The suspect is accused of selling a cellphone to a teen’s mother and using text messages sent to another phone to arrange sex with an undercover officer he thought was the teen. Link Report an error
We failed to acknowledge South Africa’s Sunday Times as the source of an article about a passenger on a South African air force flight who was catapulted into the sky when his ejector seat fired. Several passages, including quotes from a South African air force spokesman, a retired South African air force instructor pilot and [...]
The caption on a photo of the young Barack Obama’s family identified the older man in the picture as his mother’s husband, when it is actually his mother’s father, Stanley Dunham. The little girl in the picture was described as Barack Obama’s stepsister; she is his half-sister Maya (The former British police officer who wants [...]
Tad Friend is the author of Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor. A Nov. 22 review and photo caption of the book incorrectly identified Friend as Tad Friendly. Link Report an error
The Daily Show recently busted Sean Hannity for using misleading footage during a report about Rep. Michele Bachmann’s tea party rally at the Capitol. (See updated information at the bottom of this post.) Hannity subsequently apologized on air: Then, last week, Fox News had to apologize again for doing the same thing. This time it [...]
In “For peat’s sake, stop” (November 7th), an overenthusiastic spell-checking system led to the word “rewetting” being rendered as “reletting” in three different places. We apologise for any confusion caused. Link Report an error
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation says the federal debt has now reached $500 billion, not $5 trillion as was reported in The Recorder and times yesterday. Sun Media regrets the error. Report an error
Wilderness programs: A Nov. 14 article in the Home section about parents deciding whether to send troubled children to therapeutic wilderness programs quoted Dr. Ron Glick as saying, “For a parent, taking this step can be like admitting they are an alcoholic. They are admitting they’ve failed as a parent.” The article did not explicitly [...]
We have been asked to make clear that Edgar Wright’s appreciation of Edward Woodward, which appeared in the paper on Tuesday, November 17, was abridged and the full version can be read at www.edgarwrighthere.com/2009/11/edward-woodward-1930-2009/ Link Actually, the paper was asked to acknowledge the fact that it took Wright’s blog post and published an excerpt of [...]
In a Nov. 17 story about job cuts at Verizon Communications Inc., The Associated Press, relying on a labor union report, erroneously reported that Verizon is laying off more than 1,000 employees in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia. In response to AP’s query, a Verizon spokesman on Tuesday confirmed that layoffs were occurring. On Wednesday, [...]
We again incorrectly conferred the US presidency on Benjamin Franklin, this time in the unusual context of a boxing article (Money men demand Mayweather after Pacquiao destroys Cotto, 16 November, page 13, Sport). Link Report an error
In a Nov. 6 story citing examples of companies that changed their names to repair their images, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Accenture changed its name from Arthur Andersen as a result of an association with the Enron scandal. Accenture, previously known as Andersen Consulting, operated independently from Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm. Andersen [...]
Our August 5th article “Strictly out of Step about changes to the television programme “Strictly Come Dancing” said that Sharon Osbourne had decided against appearing on it because the money on it was “ridiculous”. We are happy to accept that this is incorrect. Sharon Osbourne decided against appearing on it because of her work commitments [...]
The evening newscast of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation last night ran an image of the wrong Going Rogue Sarah Palin book. The book written by Sarah Palin is titled, Going Rogue: An American Life. Another book, written by two staffers at the Nation, is called, Going Rouge: Sarah Palin An American Nightmare. (Update Nov. 23: [...]
In a Nov. 17 video our original headline and caption said pictures within the clip were home video from a wedding. In fact, the video was created as part of a viral marketing campaign on responsible drinking by the brewer Heineken. Link Report an error
Our obituary of the US songwriter and producer Luther Dixon was accompanied by the wrong photograph. It showed the singer Chuck Jackson, who is alive. We apologise for this mistake (12 November, page 38). Link Report an error
DUE to a production error in last week’s Rouse Hill Times the incorrect photo was published in the story hailing young Tom Hancock’s efforts in martial arts. The Glenwood five-year-old won two gold and two silver trophies at the recent Australian Open World Martial Arts Championships. The Times apologises for the error and regrets any [...]
