Correction March 25: It turns out this is a Photoshopped cover. The magazine posted the below note on its website. I was one of many who were fooled, not that it excuses me in any way: They say there is no such thing as bad publicity, and we do love a Tails cover gone viral. [...]
An obituary on Saturday about Jean Dinning, who wrote the hit song “Teen Angel,” included several errors. The city where she and her sisters Lou and Ginger had a 15-minute radio show was Enid, Okla., not Enid, Kan. The singer who died in a plane crash along with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper was [...]
A picture caption last Thursday with an article about the West Texas desert home of John Wells misstated the volume of water captured by the gutters on a shack. It is 140 gallons from an inch of rainfall, not 1,500 gallons. Link Report an error
An article on 13 March stated that Vincent and Robert Tchenguiz were wrestled to the ground and handcuffed when they were arrested as part of the SFO investigation into the collapse of Kaupthing. We did not intend to suggest that the Tchenguiz brothers resisted arrest and now accept that they were not wrestled to the [...]
The article said that Mr Pritchard had attacked BA cabin crew in the House of Commons for their strike action and quoted Unite joint general secretary Tony Woodley as saying that "their union-busting charge is being led by someone with his snout in BA's trough." This was in reference to a question raised in Parliament [...]
Man was not arrested: The police reports in some Jan. 29 editions said Kevin Perkins of 2001 Tiffany Drive, LaPlace, was booked Jan. 26 with possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a drug without a prescription with the intent to distribute, crack cocaine possession and drug possession. In fact, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said [...]
Versions of an article that appeared online and in print, examining Germany's social, cultural and economic background, contained various errors. Germany is not Europe's largest country – France is bigger – and in terms of exports it is not third to China and the US in the world; it now ranks second only to China. [...]
An article on Monday about strategies for picking teams in N.C.A.A. basketball tournament pools misstated the method of scoring in the New York Times contest. The Times’s system rewards its participants for picking lower-seeded teams by giving bonus points based on the difference in the two teams’ seedings; it does not give the same number [...]
… For those of us who follow hundreds (or even thousands) of feeds, fresh information can be lost between endless retweets of old information. Massive retweeting also allows false information to spread globally, gaining credibility with reach RT. While those of us who've taken the time to sharpen the list of sources we follow are [...]
From the paper's Arts Beat blog: Editor’s Note (slightly overdue). An article on Oct. 21, 1942, about the death of Byron Darnton, a war correspondent for The New York Times, described the death as “accidental” without any elaboration. Two subsequent articles said the boat he was traveling on “was bombed from the air.” It was [...]
The Washington Post today published an editor's note to admit that two articles about the Rep. Giffords shooting included plagiarized material: Two articles published by The Post online and in its print editions earlier this month contained substantial material that was borrowed and duplicated, without attribution, from The Arizona Republic newspaper. The articles described an [...]
In some editions Monday, a Money & Investing article about the Galleon insider-trading trial was incorrectly accompanied by a photo of Arindam Ghosh, a vice president at consulting firm Analysis Group. Because of incorrect information from Bloomberg News, he was misidentified as former Intel Corp. executive Rajiv Goel, a defendant in the Galleon case. In [...]
Gawker noticed that the Washington Post mistakenly published a version of a story that still included all of the editor's notes and direction to the writer. Here's a sample of what some readers saw: Tamika Felder figured she was young and healthy and could skip getting Pap smears for a few years when her job [...]
IN our Birthdays column (8 March) we stated that it was Lynn Redgrave's 68th birthday. In fact, she died on 2nd May 2010. (page 44, March 8, 2011) Report an error
This retraction and apology appeared in several of the papers owned by Canada's Sun Media: On March 9 we published a graphic titled "Wind turbines: friend or foe?" The graphic wrongly attributed claims to the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CANWEA) that wind turbines are harmful to human health. CANWEA's position is that the balance of [...]
AN item published in The Australian on November 15 (Strewth, “Losing the threads'', page 13) referred to a report in The Zimbabwe Guardian that Jacqueline Zwambila, the Zimbabwean ambassador to Australia, stripped to her underwear in front of three male embassy officials. Ms Zwambila denies the allegations, and a governmental investigation in Zimbabwe has cleared [...]
An earlier version of this story carried an incorrect dateline and reported the wrong location for where Rep. Bachmann made her incorrect historical statement about Lexington and Concord. Link Even more meta? The headline of this piece is "For Michele Bachmann, a pattern of getting facts wrong." Thanks, Bas! Report an error
In Saturday’s “High & Inside” column, The Inquirer made a regretful attempt at humor in a reference to Boston Red Sox outfielder J.D. Drew’s coming to Philadelphia to play against the Phillies in June. The sentence, “Get your D-cells ready,” should have been edited out of the story. Any reference to throwing batteries at a [...]
Sunday Conversation: In the Calendar section elsewhere in this edition, the Sunday Conversation column with Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States, gives the release date for his book "The Bond" as April 1. Pacelle's book will be out April 5. Also, the article quotes Pacelle as saying, "People used to [...]
The name of the elementary school winner of Thursday’s Miami Herald Spelling Bee was misspelled. Reva Dixit won first place at the competition for Miami-Dade and Monroe students. Link Via Testy Copy Editors. Report an error
An essay on Page 11 this weekend, about how the media reports on itself, refers incorrectly to a reporter who live-blogged a radio show on which the writer, Bill Keller, appeared. The reporter, Zeke Turner, is a man. Link *Correction March 14, 2011: This headline originally and incorrectly referred to the "NT Times Magazine" instead [...]
This site was inaccessible for much of last week due to it being temporarily listed as an attack site by Google. As a result, I missed blogging about a few notable items: A Bad Byline From a report on WQAD.com: The Western Courier is an award-winning newspaper at Western Illinois University that takes pride in [...]
On 10 February, we reported from a news agency source that Claudia Adusei, 20, from London, died after buttock enhancement treatment in Philadelphia. The agency had been misinformed that the girl was Claudia Adusei, when it was, in fact, Claudia Aderotimi who died. We apologise for any distress caused to the families concerned. Link Report [...]
ON 16th December 2010 we published an article on our front page and pages 4 and 5, making a suggestion that immediately after Amir Khan's successful WBA world champion fight against Marcos Maidana in Las Vegas on 11th December 2010, Amir Khan was joined by Katie Price for dinner and subsequently in his suite. At [...]
In a story posted March 8, entitled "Sports Agent Stole $300K From MLB Star," financial manager, Toni Chiricosta, was erroneously identified as being involved with Rodney Fernandez, a sports agent, who was charged with grand theft from Los Angeles Angel's first baseman, Kendry Morales. Mr. Chiricosta has not been accused of any wrongdoing and was [...]
