Acting on a reader tip, Slate’s Jack Shafer busted the Daily Beast’s Gerald Posner for lifting from the Miami Herald: Veteran journalist Gerald Posner acknowledged today that he copied five sentences from a Miami Herald article this week for a piece he wrote for the Daily Beast. The Daily Beast appended an editor’s note to [...]
THE picture of Randy Jackson shows the judge from American Idol and not Randy Jackson the brother of Michael. (First edition only – corrected in later editions, page 15, February 2). Report an error
In a package of stories about a US plan to put missile batteries in four Gulf countries as a defence against Iran, a summary box said that Patriot missiles stationed in Saudi Arabia in 1991 during the Kuwait war had a 70% success rate against incoming Iraqi Scud missiles, and those in Israel had a [...]
Although the General Medical Council found that Professors Simon Murch and John Walker-Smith, former colleagues of Andrew Wakefield, had failed in their duties as responsible consultants such that they continue to face charges of serious professional misconduct (“Fall of ‘dishonest’ doctor who started MMR scare”, January 29), it did not find them dishonest or, in [...]
A letter to the editor that we published Wednesday, “Obama’s speech” submitted by Ron Gardner of Atwater, has been removed from our Web site. The letter was taken almost word for word from a column, “State of the Union: Obama v. Constitution,” by Mark Alexander on the Web site, The Patriot Post. Letters to the [...]
A story on Page 1 of Tuesday’s Telegraph quoted a White House official explaining that a Q-and-A session with dozens of teenagers in Nashua High School North on Monday was “off the record.†However, the explanation about the talk being “off the record†was, it turns out, also “off the record†and should not have [...]
In our article, ‘Police called to Gaddafi’s son’s hotel room after staff hear screams’ ( 31 December 2009), we referred to Moutassim Gaddafi as the son involved in the incident. In fact, it was another of Colonel Gaddafi’s sons, Muammar Gaddafi, who was involved. We apologise to Dr Muatasm Gaddafi for our mistake. Link Gawker’s [...]
Because of an editing error, an article on Saturday about J. D. Salinger’s last known address in New York City, 300 East 57th Street, misspelled the surname of his best-known literary character. He is Holden Caulfield, not Caufield. Link Report an error
The headline `Table for two in an empty Mr. Chow”on the front of Sunday’s Tropical Life may have been misleading. The South Beach restaurant is open evenings only and was empty only during an afternoon interview with Eva Chow. Link Report an error
In the original version of this story we said that 10 million Finns died under Lenin in the 1917 civil war. The correct figure is 37,000. We regret the error. Link The above is a hard-fought correction. The magazine, a Canadian weekly, initially published a letter pointing out the mistake, but declined to issue a [...]
An article on Saturday about the court appearance of Lynn Fiebig stated that Alexander Fiebig and Richard Chittock received payment from the false invoices involved. That was wrong. The Dominion Post accepts that none of the payments involved relating to the false invoices was made to either Alexander Fiebig or Richard Chittock and apologises for [...]
In the Jan. 26 “Human Nature” on the importance of computers, William Saletan noted that in the week after Haiti’s earthquake, a campaign for $10 text-message donations to the Red Cross raised $25 million. Relying on his own brain, Saletan then calculated the number of responses as 250,000. He should have used a computer. The correct [...]
A Jan. 29 caption with a photo of the Howard Johnson hotel on Metropolitan Rd. in Scarborough provided an incorrect price for the cost of the room. As was correctly stated in the article about a list of Toronto’s “dirtiest hotels” a room at that hotel costs $89. Link Report an error
We lamented that some skiers fail to pull a “chord” to inflate their avalanche airbag systems, a circumstance that could be explained by their being tone-deaf, we suppose (16 January, p 15). Link Report an error
A story in the Play section Thursday about Transistor, an eclectic shop and hangout in Chicago, had several errors. The shop does not sell custom-crafted guitar pedals. The customer who said Transistor “is entrepreneurial, artistic activism” was incorrectly identified; the speaker was Joe Shanahan. The shop was not inspired by a visit to Berlin. And [...]
A Jan. 14 Style article on Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid’s 2008 remarks about Barack Obama, and how comments about race are received differently depending on the race of the speaker, incorrectly described Bill Clinton as trying to persuade Edward M. Kennedy to support Obama for president. Clinton was actually trying to persuade Kennedy [...]
