November 16, 2009 – 8:00 am
A story in the November 9 edition of the Toronto Sun quoted several unsupported allegations about “alleged misspending” and “influence peddling” involving the Toronto Port Authority. The Toronto Sun has no knowledge and is aware of no evidence to substantiate those allegations. The article also wrongly cited claims that the TPA “cost taxpayers $10 million [...]
November 16, 2009 – 8:00 am
ON 18 September 2009, we published an article in which Warren Furman, also known as the Gladiator “Ace”, was reported as denying “internet rumours” that he had raped Jordan. In doing so, the article implied that these “rumours” were sufficiently serious to require a response from Mr Furman.
In fact the “internet rumours” consisted of very [...]
November 11, 2009 – 8:00 am
ON 17 July 2008 in our front page article “Ron the Lash” we falsely reported that whilst recovering from an operation to his ankle Cristiano Ronaldo had “gone on a bender” at a Hollywood nightclub where he splashed out pounds 10,000 on champagne and vodka and threw his crutches to the ground and tried to [...]
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 [...]
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 13, 2009 – 8:00 am
EDDIE McGRADY MPIn our edition dated June 7, 2009 we published an article under the headline “I Wanna Live Like Commons People” regarding expense claims by Eddie McGrady MP.
We acknowledge that our article was unfair to Mr McGrady and that his expenses were in fact entirely justifiable.
Mr McGrady also pointed out, and we accept, that [...]
October 13, 2009 – 8:00 am
In yesterday’s edition of the paper in the Pat Flanagan column under the heading ‘Just Put A Cork In It’ we falsely identified Mary Black as being a self-confessed alcoholic.
We accept that this allegation is absolutely untrue and has no basis or foundation in fact.
We unreservedly withdraw this allegation and apologise to Mary Black for [...]
October 13, 2009 – 8:00 am
IN A report on October 6 about an employment tribunal case involving Wirral West MP Stephen Hesford, it was stated that Mr Hesford had once branded the constituency’s Tory Parliamentary candidate a “blonde bimbo ” and had accused her of using politics in order to get back onto the TV.
This was incorrect and should never [...]
October 2, 2009 – 8:00 am
On July 24, 2009, Cityfile published an article entitled “Jim Dolan To Kill Christmas In July?” which contained speculation on the fate of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular starring the Radio City Rockettes. Click here for an important update on this article.
On July 27, 2009, Cablevision, Madison Square Garden, and Cablevision chief executive James Dolan [...]
September 25, 2009 – 11:41 am
Due to an editing error, the Sept. 18 Yellowknifer article “No hate complaints registered in NWT” alleged that Ottawa lawyer Richard Warman had posted many of the messages that formed part of his Internet hate propaganda complaint against Marc Lemire and Craig Harrison. That allegation is false. Yellowknifer retracts that statement and apologizes to Mr. [...]
September 22, 2009 – 8:00 am
IN a report on May 5, 2009, headlined “Riddle of Boruc, the brunette and his hair straighteners”, we claimed that Artur Boruc had brought two girls to the house he shares with partner Sara Mannei and had sex with one of them. We published a picture which we said showed him straightening one of the [...]
September 18, 2009 – 2:43 pm
A columnist with The Punch, a Rupert Murdoch-owned website in Australia has apologized for what he calls “a stupid and offensive joke.” The apology:
A few weeks ago I made a stupid and offensive joke in a piece written in the immediate aftermath of the drawn opening Ashes Test.
It involved the alleged time-wasting tactics of the [...]
September 17, 2009 – 8:00 am
The Sun (U.K.) recently reported in a front page story that several famous Jews were being targeted by Muslim extremists. Then, on Tuesday, it published an article noting that it had fallen for a hoax:
A PHONEY terrorism “expert” has confessed to duping newspapers and a senior politician.
Glen Jenvey has admitted making up stories about [...]
September 17, 2009 – 8:00 am
IN yesterday’s Daily Post we published an article headlined ‘Drink drive rap for road safety mum’.
David’s mum Edwina Wares The article was a report of a court case in which Edwina Wares, 51, of Melyd Avenue, Prestatyn (pictured above) had admitted driving with excess alcohol, almost a year since her son David Wares, 22, was [...]
September 16, 2009 – 9:25 am
An article on May 25, 2007, ‘The Cult Guru Who Stole My Son’ made claims that William Van Gordon was a ‘brainwashed zombie’ and Edo Shonin brainwashed him and that the Buddhist retreat which they ran was a cult. We accept this is untrue. We apologise to both men for the contrary impression given. Link
Thanks, [...]
September 16, 2009 – 8:00 am
New Brunswick’s Telegraph-Journal continues to atone for an erroneous report from earlier in the summer that set of a scandal in Canada. After apologizing to the prime minister, firing its editor, and suspending its publisher (he’s now back with the paper’s parent company), the paper on Saturday apologized to Monsignor Brian Henneberry for fabricating a [...]
September 10, 2009 – 8:00 am
I initially didn’t post about this story because it struck me as a tale of well-meaning aggregation gone wrong, but it seems that the issue was bigger than that. The bottom line is that the Hartford Courant has apologized for repeatedly and knowingly plagiarizing the work of its competitors.
Here’s an excerpt from a statement by [...]
September 10, 2009 – 8:00 am
From a post on YES! Weekly’s blog:
After careful review of Keith T. Barber’s interview with Forsyth County District Attorney Tom Keith, we have determined that Mr. Keith was misquoted in a single instance.
The piece ran in the Aug. 26 edition of YES! Weekly under the headline, “Forsyth DA: Racial Justice Act inherently flawed.”
The quote we [...]
September 8, 2009 – 8:00 am
A report from the Christian Science Monitor:
The world’s most infamous agent of nuclear proliferation, Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, has added a fresh feather to his cap following revelations that a newspaper column he penned two weeks ago for Pakistan’s The News heavily plagiarized websites of British universities…
The newspaper column in question, “Science of computers [...]
September 7, 2009 – 4:34 pm
I placed a link to this remarkable Slate story on the What I’m Reading sidebar on this site last week. Now the New York Daily News has finally responded to the evidence uncovered by Slate. The News published this correction on Friday:
AN AUG. 23 Daily News story by a freelance reporter about the hip-hop artist [...]
September 1, 2009 – 10:14 am
This has been an incredibly bad summer for the Telegraph-Journal, a newspaper in New Brunswick.
Early in the summer, the paper faced criticism for firing a summer intern under questionable circumstances. Then, in July, the editor and publisher had to step down after the paper started a national scandal by printing false allegations about the Canadian [...]
August 20, 2009 – 8:00 am
SURREY Police have not blamed gipsies for an attack on their force helicopter, no staff in their operations rooms were threatened by gipsies and no gipsy site was being targeted for a raid as we reported on May 14. We apologise for the mistakes and are happy to set the record straight. Link
Thanks, [...]
August 10, 2009 – 8:00 am
We ran a story on 3rd September last year about serious breaches of hygiene rules uncovered by health inspectors at Canvey Island food outlets.
We said Dave’s Plaice, a fish and chip shop owned and run by Mrs Shirley Knox, had been slammed by health inspectors for a series of shocking breaches of food hygiene regulations [...]
THE photograph accompanying yesterday’s Page 1 report, ‘CEO dies during Osim triathlon’, was not of Mr Calvin Lee Wee Sing, chief executive officer of Deutsche Telekom Asia, who died on Sunday.
The photograph was of Mr Christopher Lim, Vice-President of ICT Operations and a member of the management board of T-Systems Singapore.
We regret the error and [...]
IN an article on 3 February 2008 headlined "Evil on benefits" we described Shakil Akhtar as the "treasurer" of a militant Islamic cell responsible for funding terrorism. Mr Akhtar is not involved in the funding of terrorism or a member of a militant cell and we apologise to him for the embarrassment and distress caused [...]
