November 5, 2009 – 8:00 am
Brett Favre: In an NFL column in Monday’s Sports section, Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre was quoted as saying, “It didn’t seem weird until I got in near the pier,” talking about his return to Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. What he said was, “It didn’t seem weird until I got in near De [...]
November 5, 2009 – 8:00 am
An essay on the subject of films about poets referred in error to the suicide of Ted Hughes’s second wife. His partner Assia Wevill killed herself in 1969 – but Carol Hughes, his second wife, is alive. We apologise for this mistake (Film, 31 October, page 19, Guide). Link
November 5, 2009 – 8:00 am
In the Daily Star of 27 October 2008, we published an article and photographs of Olga Kurylenko which stated that Ms Kurylenko had arranged a nude photoshoot immediately after the filming of Quantum Of Solace. We now accept that Ms Kurylenko did not arrange any such photoshoot after Quantum Of Solace and that this was [...]
November 5, 2009 – 8:00 am
Correction: An Associated Press story on the Nation page on Oct. 23 mischaracterized a motorized chair a Minnesota man was operating while drunk. Police in Proctor, Minn., where the recliner will be auctioned, said the brand is not La-Z-Boy. Link
November 4, 2009 – 8:00 am
LAST week it was incorrectly stated that Bob Thomas did not finish at the Triathlon World Championships.
Thomas did complete the event, in a time of 6hrs 30mins, and received a gold medal for winning his race category.
Incorrect information posted on the events website was the reason for the error.
November 4, 2009 – 8:00 am
Nonprofit’s wealthy owners: An article in Monday’s Section A about a nonprofit company, Social Vocational Services, run by a Palos Verdes couple included a garbled sentence that should have read, “In 1999, the Dawsons arranged to sell SVS to ResCare Inc., a for-profit company headquartered in Kentucky.” (The garble said “not sure you kno” in [...]
November 3, 2009 – 8:00 am
On Oct. 29, we reported on the death of Chuck Biscuits, the former D.O.A. and Danzig drummer, which turned out to be a hoax. The B.C.-born drummer’s brother confirmed a day later that Biscuits, whose real name is Charles Montgomery, is healthy and living in Seattle. Link
Related story here.
November 3, 2009 – 8:00 am
In a story on Page 3-A of Wednesday’s Independent about the Big Brothers Big Sisters’ Trail of Terror haunted house, a reaction to strobe lights should have included the word “freaking.” The word was replaced with asterisks, perhaps causing confusion about what was actually said. The Independent apologizes for this confusion and the impression it [...]
November 3, 2009 – 8:00 am
Zentai case: Allegations that Charles Zentai had stood over the bleeding, dying body of an 18-year-old Jewish man he bashed to death in Hungary in 1944 and described the noise of blood flooding his lungs as “music” (Killer in our midst? Agenda, page 23, October 31) are disputed by his family. Mr Zentai’s son Ernie [...]
November 2, 2009 – 8:00 am
Wanganui Mayor Michael Laws believes in sterilising the “underclass”, whom he identifies as criminals, with no stake in society, who are welfare-dependent, with alcohol and drug problems. He was not referring to all beneficiaries, most of whom are good parents, he says.
This correction also appeared in the Dominion Post and the Press.
*Correction Nov. 2: [...]
November 2, 2009 – 8:00 am
Police chief selection: A story in Friday’s Section A about the risks for L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in selecting a new police chief described Willie Williams as the city’s “first American American police chief.” It should have said African American. Link
November 2, 2009 – 8:00 am
In “Hitting criminals where it hurts most – the pocket” (August 23), we reported that Andrew Phillips had been charged with running a brothel, living off the proceeds of prostitution, procuring women and employing illegal immigrants. Phillips was acquitted of the charges on November 26 2008. We regret the omission. Link
November 2, 2009 – 8:00 am
The story titled “He’s got the world on his strings” in C6 yesterday incorrectly referred to guitarist John Williams as the creator of the Star Wars and other movie scores. While the Australian musician is also a composer and arranger, the film scores are the work of the American John Williams. We apologise for the [...]
November 2, 2009 – 8:00 am
AN ARTICLE in the Sunday Mail, on April 27, 2007, headlined “Co-op uses human ashes to grit path”, said staff at a Dunfermline funeral home had used ashes to grit a disabled ramp.
Despite printing the article in good faith , we now acknowledge and fully accept that this was not the case.
We apologise to the [...]
October 30, 2009 – 8:00 am
The Big City column on Tuesday, about Terri White, an actress who is back on Broadway in “Finian’s Rainbow” a year after an eviction left her homeless, overstated her professional achievements, based on information provided by Ms. White. Although she was featured in the Tony-nominated “Barnum” in 1980, she did not herself earn a nomination. [...]
October 30, 2009 – 8:00 am
Newspaper circulation: An article in Business on Tuesday about newspaper circulation said the Oakland Tribune reported a 7.3% gain in circulation to 68,067. Those results were actually reported by the Oakland Press, in Oakland, Mich. The California paper reported a 0.3% gain in subscribers to 92,794. Link
October 30, 2009 – 8:00 am
Orthodox Jews were excluded from a study of marriages among Jews who made “birthright” visits to Israel because they were presumed to have a high rate of marriages within the faith. A U.S. News article about the study in some Monday editions incorrectly said Orthodox Jews weren’t included because they were presumed to have a [...]
October 30, 2009 – 8:00 am
In the item “Jasper started it, honest” (18 October) about the Daily Telegraph’s recent feature on Tunbridge Wells it was wrongly suggested that Jasper Gerard had asked two boys of seventeen to pose for a fake picture showing them drunk, and that the paper had published [...]
October 29, 2009 – 8:00 am
An article pointed to a political dispute in Islington, north London, as an example of why some opponents suspected the Liberal Democrats of preparing to use dirty tactics at the next election (Lib Dems accused of dog whistle politics over Gypsy claims, 12 September, page 7). It also mentioned an incident when a rival candidate [...]
October 29, 2009 – 8:00 am
IN last week’s Argus, we published a story about a pipe bomb attack on a house at Gort Nua in Castlebellingham. We quoted the Garda Commissioner saying that the basis for such attacks lay in extortion and the drugs trade and we have been contacted by the occupants of the house who wish to point [...]
October 29, 2009 – 8:00 am
Housing density: Cottesloe Mayor Kevin Morgan is concerned that “perfectly good houses” could be demolished to make way for high-density housing, not for high-rise, as we reported in our Inside State column (Home truths about housing crisis, page 21, October 28). The comment was taken in good faith from a previous story that contained the [...]
October 26, 2009 – 8:00 am
On 29 March and 1 April last year we reported that Mr Patel was an evil terrorist who had been jailed for his part in a transatlantic jet terror plot. While he had been convicted under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act of possessing material that might be useful to terrorists, the court accepted that [...]
October 26, 2009 – 8:00 am
An Aug. 20 Living section article about the lack of services for homeless gay and lesbian youth featured the experience of a young man, Solomon Christiansen. The article reported that Christiansen felt he had no where to turn, left home, dropped out of school and began taking drugs because his mother’s boyfriend couldn’t accept his [...]
October 26, 2009 – 8:00 am
A report from the Irrawaddy:
An information leaflet from the junta’s Ministry of Information promoting the annual Traditional Performing Arts Competition has an irksome misspelling of a Burmese word that has iritated and embarrassed the military leadership.
The misspelling of one Burmese word occured in the title of a play meant to honor the Tatmadaw (military). [...]
October 26, 2009 – 8:00 am
An obituary said that Al Martino’s birth name was Alfred Cini Martino, that he recorded his first hit, Here in My Heart, for the Capitol record label, and that four years later (1956) his version of Volare was released. He was actually born Alfred Cini, recorded Here in My Heart for a small independent company [...]
