IN the Argus of March 24th, we reported on the fatal shooting of Seamus McMahon in an apartment in Bothar Chrionn, Saltown. We said that he had parked his 2010 registered car outside the apartment and that the new car was a clue to the fact that although officially listed as unemployed, he had other [...]
In a story July 27 about Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., The Associated Press, relying on a preliminary transcript from StreetEvents.com, erroneously reported a quote by President and CEO Marc Casper. Casper’s correct quote: “We are especially pleased with our organic growth results given the head winds of a weak flu season and the Biosite contract [...]
The Wall Street Journal published this correction yesterday: Two “Agenda” columns by Bill Jamieson, executive editor of the Scotsman, that appeared in The Wall Street Journal Europe and on WSJ.com contained material copied from other sources that Mr. Jamieson failed to credit. A column published July 20 on the European Union’s External Action Service and [...]
In Monday’s editions of the New York Post, we published a story that confessed wife-killer Johnny Concepcion underwent a liver-transplant operation at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. The hospital yesterday issued a statement that no such operation took place. The Post relied on two NYPD sources for its report, and it is now evident they were misinformed. [...]
A July 16 op-ed column on the Commentary page regarding banning plastic bags said the American Chemistry Council had “spent millions of dollars to create front groups such as the Save the Plastic Bag Coalition.” In fact, the coalition says, it was not created by the American Chemistry Council, nor is it funded or affiliated [...]
A recent blog post, written by Tim Bousquet and published at thecoast.ca May 26, was unfair to local polling company Corporate Research Associates and its president, Don Mills. The bulk of the blog post repeated excerpts from a press release from the citizens’ group Save the View. That press release claimed that a CRA poll [...]
An item in the July 12 News of the Weird column about police confronting beachgoers incorrectly reported what the beachgoers were doing. They were not flouting their breasts, they were flaunting them.” Thanks, Mary! Report an error
An article about maths busking said that finding a solution to turning a waistcoat inside out while wearing handcuffs involved topography. It is more likely to involve the mathematics of topology, unless, as a reader noted, we meant that in the topography of London passersby might rush to one’s aid and assist in the struggle [...]
In a July 25 story, The Associated Press reported that former CIA Director Michael Hayden told CNN’s “State of the Union” that U.S. military action against Iran now “seems inexorable.” A spokeswoman for Hayden responded that he made his reference to Iran’s push toward acquiring a nuclear program and not to military action. Link Report [...]
Abandoned newborn: In Wednesday’s LATExtra section, a California Briefing item about a Laguna Niguel woman charged with attempting to kill her newborn girl by dumping her in a trash bin carried an erroneous headline, “Trial set in newborn death.” As the item reported, the girl was discovered alive in the August 2008 incident and is [...]
Emphasis mine: ON 21 July we published an article claiming that the video games company Rockstar Games were planning to release a version of their popular Grand Theft Auto video games series titled “Grand Theft Auto Rothburyâ€. We also published what we claimed would be the cover of this game, solicited comments from a family [...]
AN ARTICLE on page 15 of yesterday’s Daily Telegraqh was headlined “Wife killer a greedy devil”. At no stage during the sentence submissions of Mr Desmond Campbell did the Crown Prosecutor, Mark Tedeschi QC, describe Mr Campbell as “a greedy devil”. Report an error
A report about the former media mogul Conrad Black said his first newspaper title was the Sherbrooke Record, “a small Canadian weekly”. The Record is published five days a week and has never been a weekly. Neither was it Black’s first newspaper. He had already acquired the Eastern Townships Advertiser, a community newspaper in Quebec [...]
The picture accompanying the story “Stormy debate over beavers” was in fact a capybara, not a beaver. The Sun regrets the error. Report an error
Duets: Ann Powers’ Critic’s Notebook in Saturday’s Calendar on the current crop of male/female duets misidentified the name of the Katy Perry hit as “California Gurlz.” It’s called “California Gurls.” Link Report an error
In a feature about tattoos we said that “Winston Churchill’s mother, Clementine, had a discreet snake on her wrist”. Clementine was Churchill’s wife. His tattooed mother was Jennie (No pain . . ., 20 July, page 6, G2). Link Report an error
A picture of Pearl Te Amo, sent to prison for drink- driving causing death and for failing to stop after the accident, was incorrectly captioned yesterday as Michelle Grace (pictured), who was the victim of the fatal crash. We apologise to the extended Grace family for the distress this mistake caused. *Correction July 24: The [...]
Talking Points Memo has dubbed it “The Mother Of Bogus Corrections.” After setting off outrage that drove the news cycle for days and caused the firing of an official, this is what Andrew Breitbart added as a correction on his post with the now-infamous Shirley Sherrod video: Correction: While Ms. Sherrod made the remarks captured [...]
An article on July 13 about new research on the role of microbes in the human body misstated part of the name of a bacterium linked to skin infections in babies delivered by Caesarean section. It is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, not “multiply resistant.†Link Report an error
An Associated Press listing of celebrity birthdays in Monday’s The Law & You section incorrectly included actor Dennis Cole. He died in November. Link Report an error
A July 19 editorial about Canada’s infrastructure deficit incorrectly stated that one estimate is that Canada needs $123 million to bring municipal infrastructure up to a minimum state of repair. In fact, the estimate is $123 billion. Link Report an error
In a report about Jonathan Ross’s final chat show on BBC1, we quoted his guest Jackie Chan as saying: “I don’t want to be an actor who can fight. I want to be a fighter who can act.” In fact, he said the opposite: “I want to be an actor who can fight. I don’t [...]
Guy Reynolds is the photo editor at the Dallas Morning News and he also writes a photography blog for its website. On Sunday, he wrote about a photo from Getty images that he discovered was altered. Not long after being informed of the problem, Getty dropped Marc Feldman, the photographer who had taken and changed [...]
Slate published an interesting article by Jeremy Singer-Vine about “What the politics Web site [Politico] deletes from its articles without telling anyone.” From the piece: … How often does Politico, in the din of the news cycle, make significant changes to its copy after publishing it—without telling readers? Part of the answer, of course, depends [...]
IN last Friday’ Daily Telegraph (July 25), we published a story on page 142 about boxer Mick Cutajar. In the article, headed “Long Bay survivor wants to come to grips with Blues”, it was incorrectly stated that Mr Cutajar was arrested and charged with armed robbery in 2007 when, in fact, he was arrested and [...]
