Thanks for being a regular reader. You can check out the award-winning Regret the Error book here.The Morning Star wishes to make clear that the reference to Care UK in the lead story on page 5 yesterday (Elderly go hungry on hospital wards) was entirely erroneous and unjustified. The company mentioned was in no way [...]
Washington Post columnist Mike Wise had a point he wanted to make about the declining standards of the media. He made that point in the worst way imaginable: By making up a phony "scoop" and posting it on Twitter. It all started early Monday afternoon, when Wise tweeted that he had been told the NFL [...]
In a column headlined “Women get the worst of stereotyping” (16 August) reference was made to Judith Williamson, the feminist author. Ms Williamson has asked us to make it clear that she has never written any of the statements attributed to her in that column. Our apologies to Ms Williamson. Link Here are the offending [...]
A photo that ran with a story yesterday about ascam artist taking advantage of local businesses was of the wrong person. Two men who share the same name and a similar appearance were mistaken for one another by multiple eyewitnesses. When a Tribune reporter presented a photo of Michael Lee Christopher Bishop, 27, to three [...]
The Portland Press Herald has fired columnist Leigh Donaldson because a recent column of his “contained a substantial amount of content from a column published on AlterNet.org that was used without attribution.” The paper published a very brief editor’s note, but it doesn’t detail whether the Press Herald will examine Donaldson’s previous work for other [...]
IN the Argus of March 24th, we reported on the fatal shooting of Seamus McMahon in an apartment in Bothar Chrionn, Saltown. We said that he had parked his 2010 registered car outside the apartment and that the new car was a clue to the fact that although officially listed as unemployed, he had other [...]
The Wall Street Journal published this correction yesterday: Two “Agenda” columns by Bill Jamieson, executive editor of the Scotsman, that appeared in The Wall Street Journal Europe and on WSJ.com contained material copied from other sources that Mr. Jamieson failed to credit. A column published July 20 on the European Union’s External Action Service and [...]
A recent blog post, written by Tim Bousquet and published at thecoast.ca May 26, was unfair to local polling company Corporate Research Associates and its president, Don Mills. The bulk of the blog post repeated excerpts from a press release from the citizens’ group Save the View. That press release claimed that a CRA poll [...]
Emphasis mine: ON 21 July we published an article claiming that the video games company Rockstar Games were planning to release a version of their popular Grand Theft Auto video games series titled “Grand Theft Auto Rothbury”. We also published what we claimed would be the cover of this game, solicited comments from a family [...]
A picture of Pearl Te Amo, sent to prison for drink- driving causing death and for failing to stop after the accident, was incorrectly captioned yesterday as Michelle Grace (pictured), who was the victim of the fatal crash. We apologise to the extended Grace family for the distress this mistake caused. *Correction July 24: The [...]
Guy Reynolds is the photo editor at the Dallas Morning News and he also writes a photography blog for its website. On Sunday, he wrote about a photo from Getty images that he discovered was altered. Not long after being informed of the problem, Getty dropped Marc Feldman, the photographer who had taken and changed [...]
Slate published an interesting article by Jeremy Singer-Vine about “What the politics Web site [Politico] deletes from its articles without telling anyone.” From the piece: … How often does Politico, in the din of the news cycle, make significant changes to its copy after publishing it—without telling readers? Part of the answer, of course, depends [...]
Lawyer did not have a drug problem: A story published in some Thursday editions about Curtis Kyles, a suspect in the killing of Crystal St. Pierre, reported incorrectly that criminal defense attorney Paul Fleming had problems with drug abuse and prostitution. The story should have said that Fleming questioned a detective about whether St. Pierre [...]
In an article published on this website on 27 December 2009 until 15 January 2010, entitled “Jet bomb ordered by 9/11 spiritual leader”, we incorrectly described the charity Interpal as “Hamas-supporting”. As such the article would have wrongly been understood to mean that Interpal and its trustees provided support for Hamas notwithstanding that Hamas is [...]
We get a lot of letters at National Geographic. Recently we received several from readers insisting that William Lascelles’s photograph on the February 2010 Your Shot page was a fake. Our readers were right. The Your Shot rules specify, “Please provide only the original, unmodified camera image.” Lascelles submitted a nicely composed picture showing a [...]
IN yesterday’s edition of the Irish Sun, we published a story about an arrest made by gardai in the investigation into the murder of innocent Noel Crawford. The photograph accompanying the story was stated to be a picture of the late Mr Crawford but it was in fact an image of the late Limerick criminal [...]
IN our report on April 25 last of the fatal shooting of Eamon Dunne, a photograph was captioned to identify the subject as the late Paul “Farmer” Martin, a well-known criminal, who was shot dead in the Jolly Toper in August 2009. Due to an error, the photograph was in fact of another Paul Martin [...]
It was reported today that Kimberley Stewart-Mole is now in a lesbian relationship, having left her husband Mike Hollingsworth. We have been informed and accept Ms Stewart-Mole is not a lesbian or in a relationship with a woman and apologise for suggesting otherwise. Link Thanks, MacGuffin!
FOLLOWING publication in the Standard on April 29 of a court report of a knife attack by Darren Edgington on Pauline Ayres and Andrew Hickmans, both of Cirencester, we have been asked to point out that neither Ms Ayres nor Mr Hickmans forced their way into the home of Mr Edgington’s mother, outside which the [...]
IN articles we published in October and November 2008, we alleged that Barry George had become obsessed with the Sky TV presenter Kay Burley and the X Factor judge Cheryl Cole. It was also alleged that Mr George had illegally attempted to obtain drugs from a hospital by fraudulently claiming to be someone else. We [...]
A photograph on page three of yesterday’s Canberra Times was incorrectly captioned. The caption said the two people pictured above were supporters of a man accused of murder. They were, in fact, associated with the alleged victim, Brendan Scott Welsh, and included his fiancee, at left. The Canberra Times apologises for the error.
In the December 7, 2008, edition of The Sunday Mail, an article titled “Don’t you own one of these, Senator?” and accompanying editorial titled “Disney plan plain goofy” were published on pages 5 and 68, respectively. They reported on an overseas study trip taken by Queensland Senator Ian Macdonald in April and May 2008, which [...]
A report from Holdthefrontpage.co.uk: Hundreds of copies of a free weekly newspaper had to be recalled last Friday after a mis-spelled picture caption left staff red-faced. Last week’s Ludlow Journal featured a front-page picture story about a belltower captain called Tony Fuller who had organised a training event for young would-be bellringers. Unfortunately the picture [...]
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