IN A report entitled ” ‘It can’t get much worse’: Fevola” published on April 17, 2010, The Age suggested that the Fevola family car was seized by debt collectors from outside their family home. This was incorrect. The Fevolas’ family cars were sold by way of private sale. Report an error
A REPORT in last week’s issue (May 23) described Audrey Gibson, 82, whose body was recovered from the Waikato River in April, as an Alzheimer’s sufferer. Her family say Mrs Gibson did not suffer from any form of dementia. Report an error
The picture published with the obituary of Lord Wolfson of Marylebone (Ecosse, last week) was that of Lord Wolfson of Sunningdale. We apologise for the error. Link Report an error
The May 17 Broadsheet post “Miss USA Stripping Scandal: How Shocking!” incorrectly stated that Miss Nevada Katie Rees lost her title after the emergence of a “hardcore pornographic photo shoot.” The photos in question were not actually pornographic. The story has been corrected. Link Report an error
In a May 21 ”Slatest” item, Jessica Loudis mistakenly cited a New Scientist article as saying that male bats that performed fellatio on each other before copulation. The article stated that female bats perform fellatio on male bats during copulation. Link Report an error
DURING March and April, The Australian published a number of articles about Paragon Printing Limited and its owner Amir Hyster. Paragon was put into administration on March 5 and Mr Hyster left for overseas on March 9. The Australian accepts that Mr Hyster did not leave for the purpose of avoiding his responsibilities and understands [...]
An editorial on Tuesday incorrectly attributed to the International Crisis Group statements that the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora is “out of touch” and “still in thrall to the LTTE” and “The dream of many Canadian Tamils for a truly independent homeland is dead.” These words came from a previous editorial of Feb. 25, which made [...]
Because of an editing error, an article on Tuesday about the restoration of the historic Parisian palace that once served as headquarters of the Marshall Plan, the American plan for Europe’s postwar reconstruction, misstated the rough equivalent in today’s dollars of the $13 billion disbursed by the plan. It is $117 billion, not $1.2 trillion. [...]
IN yesterday’s edition of the Irish Sun, we published a story about an arrest made by gardai in the investigation into the murder of innocent Noel Crawford. The photograph accompanying the story was stated to be a picture of the late Mr Crawford but it was in fact an image of the late Limerick criminal [...]
The raspberry scone recipe on pg. 42 in our March 2010 issue (“Going Gluten-Free”) contains spelt flour Although many people with gluten intolerance (like BabyCakes’ Erin McKenna) can eat spelt flour without problems, it can make others side and is unsafe for celiac disease sufferers. We apologize for the error. For gluten-free recipes, visit naturalhealthmag.com/qlutenfree. [...]
A May 25 Style review of Zev Chafets’s book “Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One” incorrectly quoted the book as reporting that Limbaugh thought of President George H.W. Bush as “a pretty, country club moderate.” That sentence in the book reads, “Bush struck him as a preppy, country club moderate, an Ivy League snob.” The [...]
Describing an upcoming documentary programme of soldiers’ recollections of the second world war, a summary said: “In June 1940 a third of a million British and American soldiers were rescued at Dunkirk.” The troops rescued from the Dunkirk area were mainly British, French, Belgian, Canadian, Polish and Dutch. Not until December 1941 did the US [...]
An article on Sept. 3, 2009, recounted the prosecution of a gang that robbed a Baghdad bank and killed eight bank guards in July 2009. The article reported that testimony at the trial “established†that five of the nine accused were in Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi’s bodyguard battalion. While it was undisputed that two [...]
Readers challenged a book extract that seemed to suggest that Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb. To clarify, the breakthrough that was made and publicly demonstrated about a year before Edison’s – by Joseph Swan of Newcastle, in early 1879 – was acknowledged by the book, but this element had been cut for space (Let there [...]
A dance review on Friday about “Unrelated Solos,†at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, misidentified the author of the text to which David Neumann’s “Tough the Tough (redux)†is set. The author is Will Eno — not the musician Brian Eno. Link Report an error
An article in our series Your next box set (14 May, page 27, G2) recommended It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, whose “scripts wander into areas where other sitcoms fear to tread”. But the headline read: It’s Always Sunny in California. Link *Correction May 25, 2010: This headline originally and incorrectly read “All U.S. places cities [...]
I previously wrote about MediaBugs, a Knight Foundation-funded project that I’m occasionally helping out as an unpaid advisor. It’s been up and running for a few weeks and the people running it — Scott Rosenberg and Mark Follman — are coming to grips with the challenge of finding the right person to listen to a [...]
IN our report on April 25 last of the fatal shooting of Eamon Dunne, a photograph was captioned to identify the subject as the late Paul “Farmer” Martin, a well-known criminal, who was shot dead in the Jolly Toper in August 2009. Due to an error, the photograph was in fact of another Paul Martin [...]
We seem to be having a little trouble with our geography… the Matterhorn is of course on the Swiss-Italian border (1 May, p 17). Issaquah is in Washington, US (1 May, p 25). The US deserts we mention in our article on leaf shape are in the West, not the Midwest (8 May, p 6). [...]
The court elimination of Phizer’s Norvasc patent saved Ratiopharm about $170-million a year. Due to an editing error, the wrong figure appeared in The Price Is Wrong by Aidan Hollis in the Financial Post on Tuesday. Link Thanks, Morgan! Report an error
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation airs a regular program called Media Watch. I’ve highlighted the show’s work in the past — this was a particularly notable report — and a recent opinion piece by the show’s host is of interest. (Also see this related piece from the show.) Among other details, it offers information about how [...]
An obituary in some copies on May 9 about Walter J. Hickel, the former governor of Alaska and United States secretary of the interior, included several errors. Mr. Hickel graduated from Claflin High School in Kansas; he was not a high school dropout. The 1994 book “The Wit and Wisdom of Wally Hickel†was a [...]
A May 18 article about the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy on Monday morning incorrectly identified Devante Beard as the victim. In fact, Devante Beard, 16, a student at York Memorial Collegiate, was not the victim in this shooting. The Star apologizes to Beard and his family. As Toronto police reported yesterday, the name [...]
A caption accompanying Saturday’s report, “Another yoga firm crashes owing customers thousands”, on page C1 erroneously described the man pictured as a Planet Yoga staff member trying to stop the media reporting on the yoga chain’s closure. He was, in fact, a customer of Planet Yoga. We apologise for the error. Report an error
A graphic on Page 4 of Tuesday’s main section listing Judge James Zagel’s notable trials included a photo of Frank Calabrese Sr. instead of Nicholas Calabrese. Also, the date of the Family Secrets trial in the graphic was incorrect. The trial was in 2007. Link Sure, seems like a normal kind of mix-up, expect that [...]
