November 21, 2008 – 8:00 am
Multi-generational living: A story in Saturday’s Home section on “granny flats” said that USC gerontology professor Jon Pynoos’ father lived on his property and received end-of-life care there for five years. It was Pynoos’ father-in-law, not father, who lived in the guesthouse, and he was not given end-of-life care there. The remodeling described, including leveling [...]
November 21, 2008 – 8:00 am
In a previous edition of this story, it was stated that Olivia de Havilland had won an Academy Award in 1939. She was actually nominated, but did not win. The story also stated that de Havilland won an Oscar for the 1948 film “The Snake Pit.” Again, she was nominated but did not win. Link
November 21, 2008 – 8:00 am
WesternZagros Resources Ltd. operates in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, not the country of Kyrgyzstan. Incorrect information was published yesterday. Link
November 20, 2008 – 8:00 am
In the story “Calls about child neglect up 77pc, says group” on page C3 yesterday, the increase in the number of calls related to suspected psychological abuse should have been 58.6 per cent, not “more than doubled”. The error was introduced in the editing process.
November 20, 2008 – 8:00 am
James Thrash, a funeral home owner, was incorrectly listed as deceased in the deaths/funerals list of Tuesday’s Metro section. Link
November 20, 2008 – 8:00 am
Because of an editing error, an article on Monday about the failure of France’s opposition Socialists to pick a new leader at their party congress over the weekend referred incorrectly to one of the three candidates, who is best known as the architect of the 35-hour workweek. The candidate, Martine Aubry, is a woman. Link
The [...]
November 20, 2008 – 8:00 am
The Value Added column in the Nov. 17 Business section should have said that a typical Chevrolet dealership sells 400 units per year, compared with Toyota’s 1,800 per year. The column incorrectly characterized those numbers as monthly figures. The column also incorrectly calculated that dealerships earn $150,000 in profit before taxes for every $1 million [...]
November 19, 2008 – 8:00 am
Because of an editing error, an article on Wednesday about a corruption prosecution against Chen Shui-bian, the former president of Taiwan, misstated the circumstances of his departure from office. He stepped down after serving the maximum two terms; he was not voted out in the elections held in March.
The article also misstated the years that [...]
November 19, 2008 – 8:00 am
In a Nov. 6 story about AC/DC, The Associated Press erroneously quoted producer Brendan O’Brien as saying the band’s music was aggressive in a way that’s catchy and “hokey.” The word he actually used was “hooky,” which is music-industry parlance for a song full of irresistible refrains, or “hooks.”
November 19, 2008 – 8:00 am
In a Nov. 14 story about German Green Party politician Cem Ozdemir, The Associated Press incorrectly reported an anecdote that he uses to illustrate a cultural difference between Germans and Turks.
In the anecdote, Ozdemir recounts entering a sauna in Turkey to find a group of naked German men. He starts talking to them and loosens [...]
November 19, 2008 – 8:00 am
Malapropism in The monks who keep coming to blows, page 3, G2, November 11: “On Sunday, brawling priests and Israeli paramilitary police careened through the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem”. We meant careered. Careen: (1) to sway or cause to sway dangerously over to one side; (2) to cause a vessel to keel [...]
November 19, 2008 – 8:00 am
An Associated Press story about Citigroup layoffs published Nov. 18 erroneously said IBM Corp. cut 60,000 jobs in July. The record cut by IBM was in July 1993. IBM has had no mass layoffs this year. The corrected story has been republished. Link
November 19, 2008 – 8:00 am
In our edition of October 29, The Melbourne Times front cover was a digitally altered photograph depicting an aeroplane flying towards the Rialto Towers. The picture used was not an actual photograph of an aeroplane in the vicinity of any building, but rather, an image that had been digitally altered. Normally, when digitally altered pictures [...]
November 19, 2008 – 8:00 am
Thursday’s edition of The Avalanche-Journal contained one-year-old obituaries, which were inadvertently reprinted.
We are taking steps to ensure that this mistake does not occur again.
The A-J deeply regrets any inconvenience our error may have caused for the families of the persons’ obituaries that were to have appeared on Thursday.
We also sincerely regret the renewed grief that [...]
November 19, 2008 – 8:00 am
On the first page of the Business section of Sunday’s Post-Gazette we printed an article about Stanley Druckenmiller and his company Duquesne Capital Management. The article included headlines that suggested that the funds which Mr. Druckenmiller and Duquesne Capital manage had suffered significant losses and that Mr. Druckenmiller had been “sacked” and “took it on [...]
November 18, 2008 – 8:00 am
Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said he misspoke when he stated in The Journal News that President George W. Bush watched “SportsCenter” at night in his residence instead of reading his briefings for the next day. Fleischer wanted to clarify that Bush did read his briefings while watching “SportsCenter.”
November 18, 2008 – 8:00 am
The photo included in birthdays on Page E2 Friday was not of rapper Reverend Run. Another member of the Run-DMC group was pictured by mistake. Link
November 18, 2008 – 8:00 am
An Op-Ed article on Nov. 4, about campaign songs, misidentified a group that performed the song “Get Ready.” It was the Temptations, not the Four Tops. Link
Thanks, David!
November 17, 2008 – 8:00 am
In a report in yesterday’s Mercury, we said inaccurately that Pc Mike Smith, who suffered a heart attack on duty, and his wife Stella, were divorced. They have, in fact, been happily married for the past 20 years. We apologise for the error and any distress caused.
November 17, 2008 – 8:00 am
The Sunday Telegraph wishes to apologise to Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull in relation to a story titled “Turnbull rant about PM and his ‘rude’ wife” published on November 9 2008.
The paper accepts the story was wrong and Mr Turnbull did not accuse Therese Rein of being rude or discourteous. He also did not say he [...]
November 17, 2008 – 8:00 am
Li Ximing obituary: A headline on the obituary of Chinese government official Li Ximing in Wednesday’s California section described Li as a Community Party leader. It should have described him as a Communist Party leader. Link
November 17, 2008 – 8:00 am
We mistakenly reported that all 59 people who received a new treatment for their inoperable brain cancer had died (4 October, p 16). We are pleased to report that several patients in the trial by Transmolecular of Cambridge, Massachusetts, are still alive. Link
November 14, 2008 – 8:00 am
AN article published in The Weekend Australian on July 22, 2006, (MP with stars in his eyes for killers, page 1) referred to former MP Peter Breen’s support for, and feelings towards, two men jailed for their part in the rape and murder of Janine Balding. Any inference that this support was based on a [...]
November 14, 2008 – 8:00 am
IRINA Abramovich has asked us to point out that she has never given an interview about her marriage to Roman Abramovich, and has not expressed the views attributed to her in our article headlined “No Roman Holiday.” (Page 16, Nov 11).
November 13, 2008 – 8:00 am
Yesterday saw the execution of a remarkable ruse: hoaxsters printed 1.2 million copies of a fake edition of the New York Times and passed them out in U.S. cities. They also put up a fake website, and issued a press release.
The edition carried the headline “Iraq War Ends,” and featured a variety of articles. It [...]
