A report from TrekMovie.com: Yesterday [May 5] a German news station had a major image fail. While covering the US Navy SEALs operation to kill Osama bin Laden they mistook a Star Trek fan-made emblem for the Maquis for the actual SEAL Team Six emblem. Check it out below. On Thursday the German news channel [...]
Earlier tonight I watched as an interesting accuracy-related discussion flowed by on Twitter. It focused on tweets sent a week ago, when reports began to surface that Osama Bin Laden had been killed. Here’s a recreation of the tweets, as best as I could manage: [View the story "A Twitter discussion about the New York [...]
This is a rather strange story of photo manipulation. A report from the Jerusalem Post: The photograph showing President Barack Obama and staffers in the White House Situation Room carefully watching the raid in progress by US forces in Pakistan on the bin Laden compound last Sunday has been published far and wide. One Hassidic [...]
This New York Times correction from today is generating a lot of interest. Reddit users started things off and Gawker and Gothamist have also taken note. Behold: An item in the Extra Bases baseball notebook last Sunday misidentified, in some editions, the origin of the name Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, which Mets pitcher R. A. [...]
A column in Saturday’s paper on Intertainment Media Inc. did not intend to suggest that the company is misleading the public or its investors about the growth of its product, Ortsbo.com, or that the Google Analytics data on the number of unique visitors to Ortsbo.com are inaccurate. The Globe and Mail regrets any inconvenience that [...]
IN a recent edition of the Herald we stated that Conservative councillor Sam Munn was “stepping down” from the authority in the forthcoming elections. This was a result of incorrect information we received. Cllr Munn is not standing down nor is he due for reelection. We apologise for any upset or inconvenience caused by this [...]
A report from the Press Gazette: The Sun has changed a picture caption after publishing a manipulated image of Libyan rebels beneath three pro-Gadaffi fighter jets. The picture was used in a Sun story headlined: “We beg the West for no-fly zone before Gadaffi’s jets destroy us” on 15 March, which was about a rebel [...]
The White House’s account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden has undergone some revisions in recent days–a fact White House press secretary Jay Carney (pictured above) attributed to a "fog of war" atmosphere as information continues to stream in. But that explanation hasn’t been sufficient for some journalists, who are beginning to grumble [...]
Daniel Hernandez: An article in the April 28 Calendar section about author-journalist Daniel Hernandez identified Hernandez as a former Los Angeles Times staff writer. Hernandez is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer and a current staff blogger and news assistant in the Times’ Mexico City bureau. Link Report an error
In an essay about popular unrest in the Arab world headed:A long time coming (15 April) we referred to an order said to have been given by HRH Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud on 11 March this year. We said that Prince Nayef, the Saudi minister of the interior, ordered security forces to show [...]
An article in Tuesday’s editions about families of Sept. 11 victims incorrectly suggested that the wife of World Trade Center victim Joseph Giaccone was deceased. Report an error
Also, a story in some editions Monday on Page 2 about Osama bin Laden’s life said bin Laden died in the lawless badlands of Pakistan along the Afghanistan border. Bin Laden was killed in a house in Abbottabad, north of Islamabad. The story also repeated a paragraph that had some garbled sentences. A timeline in [...]
Journalists are constantly complaining about the light-speed news cycle nurtured by Twitter updates and the constant race to be first, or at least current. But the this sprint to be fast and relevant often leads to trips, falls and scuffed knees. The fallout from President Obama’s announcement that Osama bin Laden had been killed by [...]
The Obama/Osama errors keep rolling in. (Read my full collection here.) The South China Morning Post distinguished itself by making the mistake in a headline and then publishing an incorrect correction: In a headline on page A2 yesterday, the US president’s first name was erroneously given instead of that of Osama bin Laden. We apologise [...]
Bin Laden obituary: The obituary of Osama Bin Laden in the May 2 Section A incorrectly reported the date of his Al Qaeda network’s terrorist attacks on the United States as Sept. 11, 2011. The attacks took place in 2001. Additionally, the obituary omitted the day Bin Laden was killed. It was early Monday in [...]
An article in the April 28 edition about students protesting tuition hikes incorrectly identified a person as Robert Bhavin, 21, a senior political science major from Edison. His name is actually “Bhavin Patel.” Report an error
AN article in yesterday’s editions about an Orange Order parade in east Belfast incorrectly stated that no-one from the Order was available for comment. The Rev Mervyn Gibson, chaplain of the Orange Order’s District Number 6, did in fact make himself available for interview, but his comments were omitted from our report. We are happy [...]
A report of the terrorist bombing of a tourist cafe in Marrakech merged the identities of two Britons named Peter Moss in later editions of the paper. The man who died was 59-year-old Peter Moss, an award-winning travel writer, broadcaster and comedian. He was confused with the novelist of the same name who has written [...]
In stories Feb. 19 and 20 about protests at the Wisconsin Capitol, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Dr. Lou Sanner said he wrote hundreds of doctor’s notes for protesters. Sanner said he wrote 18 notes, and that hundreds of people approached him and other doctors seeking notes. Link Report an error
A front-page story in some editions Monday incorrectly referred to Osama bin Laden as Obama. In the same story, a photograph cutline wrongly said two aircraft hit the same tower of the World Trade Center. The planes hit different towers. Link Read my roundup of other recent Obama/Osama errors here. Report an error
Yesterday, I saw a quote from Martin Luther King Jr. fly across my twitter feed: "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy." – Martin Luther King, Jr". I was about to retweet it, but I hesitated. It didn’t sound [...]
A federal election was held in Canada last night, and one of the biggest errors made by the mainstream press came from the Whig-Standard in Kingston, Ontario. The error itself is common: the paper printed a winning candidate’s last name as Tsu when it is actually Hsu. But oh my they did it in a [...]
Madame Nhu: In the April 28 LATExtra section, the obituary and accompanying headlines on Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, South Vietnam’s unofficial first lady during the early part of the Vietnam War, referred to her as Ngo Dinh Nhu. That was her husband’s name. Her birth name, as the story said, was Tran Le Xuan. In [...]
Given the fact that journalists have been mixing up the names of President Obama and Osama Bin Laden for a good three years or more, it’s no surprise that the coverage of last night’s huge news included many of these slips. Here’s a sampler of Obama/Osama errors. This, from a local Fox affiliate, may be [...]
At least five British newspapers and one broadcaster used a fake photo of a dead Bin Laden in their coverage. Tabloid Watch has a gallery showing each paper, and here’s the example from the Mirror: The offending papers include the Sun, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Times of London. The broadcaster was Sky News. Here’s [...]
