Archive for July 2010

Porn on the brain

Contrary to “There’s no excuse for stumbling across porn now” (Comment, last week), the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is not “setting up a porn-only internet domain”. Rather, a private company, ICM Registry, is applying to Icann, a regulatory body, for permission to operate a domain with the .xxx suffix. Further, the piece [...]

Apology

On Wednesday, the Derby Telegraph printed an article about a fund-raising bike ride with the headline “Duo’s 586-mile effort to raise cash in memory of twin Charlie”. The bike ride was in fact in memory of Charlie’s brother, James. We would like to apologise to his parents, Becky and John Walters, for any upset caused. [...]

Fuzzy numbers etc.

A dropped digit meant we seemed to be saying that about 60 demonstrators were arrested during the G20 meeting in Toronto – instead of about 600, as the local police said at the time of writing (Cameron plans to downgrade G8 summit, 29 June, page 8). Link  Report an error

Can’t trust those Goldman Sachs outsiders

A letter on Sunday under the headline “Why Liberals Are Feeling Distressed” referred incorrectly to Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner. He never worked at Goldman Sachs and thus was not a “Goldman Sachs insider.” Link  Report an error

Reporting recall

Earlier versions of this story reported that Israel expelled the families of Turkey’s diplomats in the aftermath of Israel’s actions against a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. NPR should have reported that Israel recalled the families of its own diplomats from Turkey. Link  Report an error