On behalf of The Rhinoceros Times, I apologize for the offensive political cartoon in the June 23 edition of The Rhinoceros Times. The cartoon appears to be two black male prisoners using poor grammar talking about being in jail. The males are supposed to be two white men. The color that was used for these [...]
A report from Stinky Journalism: … the BBC, Time magazine, the Telegraph and other news outlets published stories about a dog in Israel being condemned to stoning in Israel. As the BBC explained, the hoax story: “It was reported that the dog reminded a judge of a curse passed on a now deceased secular lawyer [...]
Because of incorrect information provided by the Fairfield County coroner’s office, an item about the death of a 19-year-old Rock Hill man published on Heraldonline.com and in Tuesday’s editions of The Herald contained several errors. John Clinton was injured while wake boarding Sunday on Lake Wateree. He was not knee-boarding. Clinton was injured about three [...]
In reporting the current dispute about planned changes in public-sector pensions, an occasional reference in our pages has proved not to be immune from an error now widespread in media reports – to the effect that employees are facing a “3.2% increase” in the average contributions required from them. That should be an increase of [...]
Romenesko spotted this wonderful correction from AAA World magazine, which was posted in the feedback section of the AAA website: Many of you noticed a slight error in our July/August feature, Ghost Fields, where we suggested that President Lincoln delivered a speech in Philadelphia on June 16, 1964. The actual date of the president’s speech [...]
New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane dedicated his most recent column to the issue of scrubbing and of version control. Specifically, he looks at a few examples where changes were made to reporting without the alterations being noted. In some cases, older versions of stories were disappeared from the Times website. I’ve written about [...]
In a June 23 “Brow Beat” post, Chris Wilson wrote that J.K. Rowling’s new Pottermore website would have 18,000 pages of extra content; the correct figure is 18,000 words. And: In a June 17, “Brow Beat” post, Chris Wilson stated that the Harry Potter character Bill Weasley is a werewolf. He was injured by the [...]
The first five paragraphs of the News of the Weird column on Page 22 in the Relish section Thursday began with an internal email that accidentally was inserted into the electronic file during the production process. It was not part of the story. I looked but could not find the angle version of the News [...]
In the June 23 “Press Box,” Jack Shafer misspelled Jimmy in the name of Janet Cooke’s fabricated 1980 Washington Post article, “Jimmy’s World.” Link Report an error
Two articles published on the 7th and 9th April 2010 concerned the discovery at Liverpool John Lennon Airport that Willi Jarant, aged 91, had died prior to check-in for a flight to Germany and the subsequent arrest of his widow, Gitta Jarant and step-daughter, Anke Anusic. The first article was headed “Women attempt to get [...]
In a story June 20 about retired NFL players discussing a class-action lawsuit against the league demanding better benefits, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Joe DeLamielleure limped to the podium to state his case and then detailed his lengthy resume of surgeries. DeLamielleure has never had surgery and does not walk with a limp. [...]
In my article for the magazine on Jon Huntsman, which went online Monday and appears in print this Sunday, I wrote this line: Common wisdom had it that Obama and his team had shrewdly decided to move Huntsman out of the country and take him off the Republican playing field for 2012 — a not-illogical [...]
A window of opportunity is open right now for online journalists to build accuracy and accountability into the publishing systems we use every day … Editors at the dawn of the web understood they had to be accountable for changes they made to published stories, and so improvised a routine for handling substantive corrections: Fix [...]
A story on Page A1 on June 3 reported the death of an Alabama native who joined a militant group in Somalia. Earlier reports had said Omar Hammami, also known as Abu Mansour al-Amriki, or “the American,” may have been killed in March in Somalia. Subsequent reports, however, said he spoke to reporters at an [...]
BRITAIN’S aircraft carriers and Harrier jump jets are being sold to the US Marine Corps and not the UN Marine Corps (page 7, June 16). Report an error
… Poynter’s Kelly McBride, who regularly gets phone calls from editors seeking advice on how to handle plagiarism/fabrication cases, said she found that more newsrooms started firing staffers for plagiarism following the Blair scandal. That seems to have changed once the economic crisis hit newsrooms. “Some editors these days seem more willing to overlook minor [...]
From the Australian Broadcast Corporation’s Media Watch program: … Media Watch accused Sydney newsreader Angela Pearman, and several other ABC newsreaders around the country, of faking that interview with John Lombard in Moscow. The allegation was repeated in our 20th anniversary special in 2009 and was until recently available on our website. We’re now satisfied [...]
ON May 16 we said that Tim Henman, right, would reportedly earn pounds 14,000 per day to commentate at Wimbledon this year. We have been informed that his fee will be substantially less. We apologise for our mistake and are happy to set the record straight. See this similar apology/correction from the Mail on Sunday. [...]
In a recipe for courgette risotto – midweek suppers, 16 June, page 15, G2 – one ingredient was “200ml white wine vinegar”. The result was not ideal. It should have been white wine. Link Report an error
The article “Game on in Dickson’s twilight zone” (June 23, p4) incorrectly reported the 2011 Canberra Roleplaying and Games Festival Triptych theme as “immorality.” The theme was “immortality”. Report an error
The Telegraph report on Saturday on Sai Baba’s assets had erroneously mentioned that industrialist Ratan Tata had made an unannounced visit to the Puttaparthi ashram. Tata’s trip to the ashram was planned several weeks ago. He did not fly into Bangalore nor was he in a Mercedes as the report said. He landed in Puttaparthi [...]
Because of an editing error, an article on Thursday about the New York Public Library’s acquisition of the archive of Timothy Leary misstated the amount the library paid the Leary estate for the collection. It was $900,000, not “$900,00.” Link Report an error
Articles on the death of Curt Willi Jarant suggested that two family members, Gitta Jarant and her daughter Anke Anusic, had attempted to smuggle Mr Jarant’s corpse on to a flight from Liverpool to Berlin, thereby apparently committing a criminal offence of failing to give notification of death. That allegation was untrue, as was the [...]
The man identified as Timothy Haynes in a photograph accompanying yesterday’s Telegraph story “Cuckold ‘humiliated love rival online’” was not in fact Mr Haynes. We apologise for any distress caused to the person photographed. The online version of the story does not include the apology. Report an error
An article on June 5 about the riot grrrl musical movement and its legacy misidentified the original song containing the lyrics “boy girl revolution.” It was “Her Jazz” by Huggy Bear, not one by Kathleen Hanna, who was in the band Bikini Kill. The article also misidentified the singer who first performed the song “I [...]
