A notable section from a Wall Street Journal article about the Taliban: The Taliban have in the past nine years become a relatively media-savvy organization, especially for Afghanistan, where major government ministries sometimes ask reporters to fax questions—in a country with few working land lines, and thus almost no fax machines. The Taliban, in contrast, [...]
From Politico: When it comes to typos and spelling, everyone makes mistakes… even the White House. In a White House press release sent Tuesday evening, there's a misspelling, and it's a big one: The first lady's first name. "Michele and I are deeply saddened by the loss of life, injuries, and damage that have occurred [...]
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 [...]
Every one once in a while I come across a notable typo that’s not related to journalism. This is one of those times. From a report in the Globe And Mail: An unfortunate blunder by the Prime Minister’s Office has residents of Nunavut alternately chuckling and cringing. A news release sent out Monday outlined Prime [...]
A report from the Independent (UK): Jacob Rees-Mogg, the tweedy Conservative candidate for the new parliamentary seat of North-East Somerset, has been caught red-handed trying to rip off the Sun newspaper in his latest campaign leaflet. Rees-Mogg – who, as the son of the former Times editor Lord Rees-Mogg, should perhaps know better – admitted [...]
As you’re no doubt aware, a photograph purporting to show the successful test firing of four missiles by Iran was revealed to have been manipulated. In fact, only three missiles were successfully fired. The image, provided by the Iranian government, was distributed by Agence-France Presse and used by many media outlets. You can view some [...]
At the end of last week, it emerged that Timothy S. Goeglein, who until his resignation on Friday was the White House aide responsible for working with conservative and Christian groups, had plagiarized in one of his regular guest columns published in the News-Sentinel. Former News-Sentinel columnist Nancy Nall* revealed the plagiarism. From there, it [...]
