A new website promises to shine a spotlight on "churnalism" by exposing the extent to which news articles have been directly copied from press releases. The website, churnalism.com, created by charity the Media Standards Trust, allows readers to paste press releases into a "churn engine". It then compares the text with a constantly updated database [...]
From Yahoo! Eurosport UK: Spanish sports daily AS has been forced to apologise after a "computer graphics error" saw it airbrush out a player in an image of a controversial offside decision. Dani Alves set up David Villa's opening goal in Barcelona's 2-1 victory over Athletic Bilbao last Sunday but there was some suggestion that [...]
I'm a bit delayed in noting this correction from earlier this month (it was sent in by a few people and noted by Jim Brady on Twitter): Because of incorrect information from the Prince George's County Animal Management Group, this Animal Watch item incorrectly referred to a bird rescued Feb. 5 in Laurel in an [...]
A Correspondent’s Notebook article last Sunday, about a CBS News journalist who was sexually abused while reporting from Cairo, referred incorrectly to Gaza, where the writer of the article, Sabrina Tavernise, once worked. Gaza is not “in Israel.” And an accompanying picture caption misspelled the given name of the CBS journalist. As the article correctly [...]
A Feb. 15 article about Phillip Franke's murder trial stated that Franke admitted to strangling Sandi Duncan. He admitted to being present at her strangling, but did not admit to the strangling. Report an error
In a Feb. 22 "Slatest" item headline, Meredith Simons accidentally omitted the letter o from the word account, which resulted in an unfortunate typo. Link Report an error
On 31 July 2010 an article headlined "A tour of the jail within a jail that houses Britain's most dangerous convicts" about the High Security Unit at Belmarsh Prison wrongly suggested that Garikoitz Ibarlucea Murua was amongst those held in that unit. In fact Mr Ibarlucea was only ever remanded at Wandsworth prison as a [...]
Tunisia was omitted from a map of Africa Tuesday, and its land mass incorrectly identified as part of Libya. Thanks, David! Report an error
In our Jan. 20, 2011, edition, we published a story, “Nightmare at Troy horse ranch,” about allegations of abuse and neglect of rare Lusitano and Andalusian horses at the Carpe Diem Farms, LLC ranch owned by Byrde Lynn Hill and the lawsuit filed against Carpe Diem Farms and Ms. Hill by former ranch managers [...]
The pope's 2010 visit to Britain was put at an awesome £7bn in early editions of a report on the forthcoming state visit by Barack and Michelle Obama. That was meant to be £7m (Watch out for the corgis, 18 February, page 3). Link Report an error
Subkrewe's name corrected: The caption on a photo of the Krewe du Vieux parade in Sunday's Metro section incorrectly referred to a parading subkrewe as "Tokin" rather than by its initials: T.O.K.I.N., for the Totally Orgasmic Krewe of Intergalactic Ne'er-do-wells. Link Thanks, Todd! Report an error
When it comes to name-calling, Libya's longtime strongman, Moammar Kadafi, is a master. In his speech Tuesday to his troubled countrymen, he referred to anti-government protesters as "greasy rats," "drug-fueled mice" and "gangs of cockroaches." However, when it comes to Kadafi's own name, well, let the name-calling really begin. In fact, the only groups that [...]
There were two errors in supermarket prices given in reports on the government's alcohol policy and in a Datablog item. We said that Asda sold Grant's whisky for £11 in its stores just before Christmas. The supermarket has asked us to make clear that the lowest price for Grant's whisky in that period was £15.97, [...]
IN LAST week's Sunday Sun we ran a story about a carer who has been charged in connection with an alleged incident at a North home. The alleged incident took place at a home called Tynedale which is based in Ashbrooke, Sunderland. As part of the article we used a photo of a building called [...]
Mediaite has an interesting item about Fox News mistaking footage from last year's CPAC for this year's event: This weekend, Rep. Ron Paul won the straw poll at this year’s CPAC the second consecutive year. However, when he was interviewed about victory during America’s Newsroom on Fox News, yesterday, they aired the clip of his [...]
Via Talking Biz News, an embarrassing front page typo ("Mortage") from the Monday Chicago Sun-Times: Thanks, Jon! Report an error
In a story about the controversy regarding Michelle Obama's decision to wear a British rather than an American designer dress to a US state event we incorrectly stated that Michael Kors was one of two designers "who criticised the first lady" for doing so. He has asked us to make clear that he has never [...]
An item referring to the Channel 4 current affairs and comedy show 10 O'Clock Live said an Autocue had failed last week when Lauren Laverne and Charlie Brooker were on camera and "neither of them could hold things together". In fact this segment was a pre-recorded, scripted sketch used to demonstrate the perils of live [...]
Word started to spread last week that quarterback Brett Favre might be joining the next edition of Dancing With the Stars. There were speculative articles by USA Today and ProFootballTalk, among others. But none of these articles included a quote from Favre, and no one from the show was on record as giving any credence [...]
Oopsies…our bad! On Wednesday, along with several other media outlets, UsMagazine.com erroneously published a story attributing quotes to Sarah Palin; in a supposed radio interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, the former Republican Vice Presidential nominee was quoted bashing Christina Aguilera's botched rendition of the National Anthem at Sunday's Super Bowl. In response, Palin, 46, [...]
State Sen. Malama Solomon (D, Hilo-Honokaa) said the state is facing an $850 million shortfall. A Page A1 article yesterday quoted her as saying the shortfall was $850 billion. Report an error
A quote by Tzipi Livni, Israel's former foreign minister, within a panel that formed part of the Palestine papers, was cut in a way that may have given a misleading impression. The quote appeared as: "The Israel policy is to take more and more land day after day and that at the end of the day [...]
An article on Jan. 30 about the comedic tone displayed by N.H.L. players during a live televised draft on Jan. 28 to choose the two rosters for the All-Star Game contained several errors pertaining to one source of comedy — Patrick Kane’s humorous effort to prevent his friend and Chicago Blackhawks teammate Jonathan Toews from [...]
In the Feb. 7 Slatest, Sonia Van Gilder Cooke misidentified the Green Bay Packers as a Florida team and misspelled Pittsburgh in a headline. Link Report an error
In the Feb. 7 "Spectator," Ron Rosenbaum originally transposed the words former and latter, inadvertently suggesting that the Allies used Hitler to defeat Stalin, rather than vice versa. Link Thanks, Hannah! Report an error
