I’m still traveling, but I couldn’t delay getting this apology on the site: The Tab would like to apologise to BBC Correspondent and former Newsround presenter Lizo Mzimba for making a considerable number of false and damaging allegations about Lizo’s professional and personal behaviour, in a series of articles published in October 2009. The Tab [...]
I’m traveling over the next couple of weeks, and will be speaking at a German conference about fact-checking. Regular posting will resume April 5. In the meantime, feel free to send along any notable corrections and errors. Thanks! Report an error
ON MONDAY, The Age reported that Richard Dawkins referred to Pope Benedict XVI as “Pope Naziâ€. The reference was to Pope Pius XII. The mistake was made by the reporter. Thanks, Kevin! Report an error
A television entry in the Week Ahead report last Sunday about “Ugly Americans†on Comedy Central misstated the name of a similar television show. It is “The Life and Times of Tim,†not “The Life and Death of Tim.†Link Report an error
In a March 15 story March about hospices being slow to turn off patients’ defibrillators, The Associated Press reported erroneously the proportion that had a way to identify implant recipients. The study found 20 percent had a method to do so, not one in 20. Link Report an error
Simeon Tshakapesh, the chief of the Natuashish (formerly Davis Inlet) band council, pleaded not guilty to an alcohol-related charge. Due to an editing error, he was described yesterday as having pleaded guilty. The Globe and Mail apologizes for the mistake. Report an error
The geologist Arthur Holmes was described in the My Hero column (27 February, Review, page 5) as “a little-known scientist from a now defunct department at Nottingham University”. He was professor of geology at Edinburgh University, having previously been a lecturer at Imperial College London and reader at Durham University. A reader notes: “He has [...]
James Elliott Coyne, a former governor of the Bank of Canada, is still very much alive and well. Incorrect information appeared in a column on March 16. The National Post regrets the error. Link Report an error
Fountain maker: An article in Business on Sunday about Mark Fuller said his project for the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas amounted to $2.7 million. His firm’s contract was for $27 million. Link Report an error
A PICTURE caption on page 6 of yesterday’s newspaper about two men who died in a car accident stated that one, former Parkes mayor Robert Wilson, had lost his grandson in another car accident some years earlier. It was in fact the other victim, Kevin Marshall, who had previously lost his grandson. The Daily Telegraph [...]
COUNCILLOR Neil McEvoy has asked us to point out that he did not call the people of Rumney and Llanrumney morons, thugs, cowards and liars, as suggested by a letter from Geoff Parry (Viewpoints, March 12). He says his comments (published in May 2009) were referring only to those involved in an altercation with him [...]
This is a nice story from AP about how the news organization worked hard to correct a photo caption on an important photo: For 68 years, John E. Love has been haunted by memories of being forced to carry the bodies of fallen comrades to a mass grave hollowed out of a Filipino rice field. [...]
A story on January 13, “Suspect in $150m loan scam fronts court”, listed people said to have been charged as part of a fraud syndicate. In fact only seven of those listed in the article – Hiba Cornell, Ahmad Hamze, Adam Zraike (aka Adam Perez), Rachid Kabhara, Hammoude Badr, Mohamad Sowaid and Mohamad Diab – [...]
The following typographical errors occurred in a letter to the editor from Nancy Garez that was printed in the Nipawin Journal of March 10. The number of children killed by abortions in Canada every year is over 100,000 and not over 1,000,000. The correct web address for the Silent No More Awareness campaign is www.silentnomoreawareness.org. [...]
In yesterday’s paper due to a production error we reported that the BBC has received 800,000 complaints over the proposed closure of digital radion station 6 Music. We are told, and accept, that the actual figure was just under 8,000 complaints. We are happy to set the record straight. Link Report an error
An article on Thursday about a Congressional panel that questioned the need for the Treasury Department’s bailouts of GMAC in 2008 and 2009 gave an incomplete figure for the overall amount of the government’s financial package. It totaled $17.2 billion. (The word “billion†was omitted.) Link Report an error
We incorrectly used the word “homocentric” when what we meant was “male-centred” (27 February, p 36). Link Report an error
An article on 6 October last year about Keith Floyd’s funeral wrongly stated that Nancy Jones had gatecrashed the wake, had acted in an insensitive way and that she was ushered out. We now accept that our information was incorrect. Nancy Jones, Keith Floyd’s eldest daughter, was expected and welcomed at the event and was [...]
Jay Mathews’s column in the March 8 Metro section incorrectly listed “The Killer Angels,” by Michael Shaara, among nonfiction books suggested by readers for use in schools. The book is a fiction work. Link Report an error
A single but significant word was mistyped in a story headlined UK complained to US about terror suspect torture, says ex-MI5 leader (10 March, page 2). Eliza Manningham-Buller was quoted as saying: “After the next terrorist attack, there will be cause for fresh legislation, which should be resisted. The criminal law as it stands is [...]
An article last Sunday about the morality of dealing with looting in times of disaster incorrectly stated that a blackout in 1965, which did not bring disorder to New York, resulted instead in a baby boom nine months later. There was no baby boom. A widespread belief that there had been one originated with a [...]
Estate planning: The Personal Finance column about estate planning in the March 7 Business section misidentified the book “Trial & Heirs: Famous Fortune Fights!” by Andrew W. Mayoras and Danielle B. Mayoras as “Trial and Errors: Famous Fortune Fights.” Link Report an error
On 7 March 2010, we published an article by Zoe Margolis. In part of the first edition of the newspaper and online, this article carried the headline, “I was a hooker who became an agony auntâ€. This was written by the newspaper not Ms Margolis. We accept that Ms Margolis is not and never has [...]
I don’t have any other details to offer, other than to note that these are fake corrections: In our Academy Awards preview last week, we incorrectly predicted that Paul Blart: Mall Cop would sweep the ceremony with 14 awards. When the Mavericks play the Oklahoma City Thunder next month, we intend to repeatedly refer to [...]
In a story published on Page 3 of the Ottawa Sun Wednesday, Grace Xin was reported as having said that she came to Ottawa because “people like herself from southern China chose Ottawa because they’d like a break from the heat and crime.” In fact, Xin said she choose Ottawa because she would like to [...]
