In an April 7 “XX Factor” post, E.J. Graff originally wrote that she wanted to run up to Burlington, Vt., to kiss every legislator who voted in favor of gay marriage. Vermont legislators work out of the state capital, Montpelier. Link
Correction: In our on-air version of this story, we made a mistake by inadvertently showing the wrong house. We referred to it as the house where the arrested man lived, on Southeastern Avenue. It was instead the house of a neighbor. We have put a procedure into place to prevent this from happening again and we regret [...]
In a story posted March 5 on The Hook, The Tyee reported that B.C. Supreme Court Justice Elliott Myers described a defence argument in a lawsuit involving a parody issue of The Vancouver Sun as, “with respect, inept.”
The story was based on oral reasons for judgement delivered in chambers by Justice Myers.
A written version of [...]
The March 18 story “Just How Bad Off Is the Republican Party (Part 2)?” originally stated that Kansas Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson would not be running for governor in 2010 because of questions about a relationship with an aide. In fact, Parkinson is not running so that he can tend to his family business. [...]
The following post appeared earlier this afternoon with the headline “RIP Natasha Richardson 1963–2009.” Since that time, TONY’s sources have clarified the situation: Richardson is brain dead but has not passed away. Sources close to the family indicate that they regard this as death. We will update you on this sad story as circumstances warrant. [...]
Over the weekend, one of our readers pointed out that the “It’s a Snap” user travel Photo of the Week was, in fact, a copyrighted image. We have removed the photograph from our site, as the picture is the property of Scanlan Photography’s “Windows to the World,” viewable at http://www.scanlan.com. Link
February 24, 2009 – 8:00 am
A story from TheLocal.de:
An article poking fun at the lengthy name of new Economy Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg turned out to be a joke on some of the biggest names in the German media after it was revealed they had been tricked by a Wikipedia prankster.
On Sunday February 8, the evening before Guttenberg was officially [...]
February 23, 2009 – 8:00 am
In the Feb. 16 “Television,” Colin Fleming originally misidentified one of the Top Gearhosts who was knocking out his car windows in a segment of the show. He also stated that no one knows the identity of the character Stig, but his name was revealed by a British newspaper in January. He also misstated the cost of [...]
February 20, 2009 – 6:13 pm
A correction from HuffPo:
The Huffington Post has learned that the below video has been doctored. We regret the error and apologize to Mr. Gibson. John Gibson never compared Eric Holder to a monkey with a bright blue scrotum.
Rather, as seen in the unedited video below, Gibson played audio of Holder saying “nation of cowards” [...]
February 17, 2009 – 8:00 am
In a story contained in WENN’s 2nd feed on 16 February 09, headlined “HARTNETT WINS BEST NEWCOMER FOR WEST END DEBUT”, we referred to FRANKIE VALLI as “the late singer”. We wish to make it clear that Frankie Valli has not passed away, and should not therefore have been referred to by WENN as “the [...]
February 4, 2009 – 8:00 am
Canoe, one of the biggest news sites in Canada, mistook a Canadian Press reporter for a man facing four terrorism-related charges. Steve Proulx and Steve Faguy noted the error and provided this screengrab:
Here’s the man on trial:
After fixing the photo (but not adding a correction), the site eventually removed the page. Nice.
Final item of note: [...]
February 3, 2009 – 8:00 am
ING Group of the Netherlands will book a fourth-quarter loss of about $5.2 billion when it posts its earnings on Feb. 18, not $52 billion, as originally reported. Link
February 2, 2009 – 8:00 am
In a Jan. 26 “Sports Nut,” Charles P. Pierce originally referred to the Eternal Word Television Network’s “late Mother Angelica.” While she no longer makes live appearances on the air due to her ill health, Mother Angelica is still living. Link
January 26, 2009 – 8:00 am
This article was amended on Tuesday 20 January 2009. In our entry on Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon Days, we referred to a Prairie Ho Companion; we meant a Prairie Home Companion. This has been corrected. Link
Thanks, Jason!
January 16, 2009 – 8:00 am
A post on the paper’s Talking Politics blog:
In a recent post, I hammered Dave Wedge of the Herald pretty good for a lazy and misleading Pols & Politics column — one that he didn’t write. That’s normally his column, so I assumed he wrote that one, and I failed to notice that his byline was [...]
January 13, 2009 – 8:00 am
Kidnappers of a Vancouver web publisher are not demanding a $1.5 million ransom, as originally reported. In fact, they want $150,000. Link
January 5, 2009 – 8:00 am
Defamer (via LAist) took note of the fact that a pre-written obit for Lena Horne went live on Entertainment Weekly’s website back in December:
A similar thing happened at CNN.com a few years back, except that was an example of mass obiticide.
December 19, 2008 – 10:44 pm
Message: On 21 November we published an article headed “Nominet chairman embroiled in governance row: sits on own salary committee”. Contrary to that article, we wish to make it clear that Mr Gilbert, the chairman of Nominet, does not sit on a committee which determines his remuneration. We apologise to Mr Gilbert for any embarrassment [...]
December 15, 2008 – 8:00 am
In the Dec. 8 “Technology,” Farhad Manjoo originally criticized SnapTell’s iPhone application for failing to recognize products like a bag of Cheez-Its and a bottle of Arm & Hammer laundry detergent. The SnapTell application is designed to identify only books, CDs, DVDs, and video games. Link
December 11, 2008 – 8:00 am
On December 4, CNN.com featured a photo showing an image of Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic surrounded by pre-election posters showing Serbian Progressive Party President Tomislav Nikolic in Belgrade. We cropped the image to show only Nikolic, but a caption referencing the police’s ongoing hunt for Mladic misleadingly implied this was Mladic.
CNN apologises [...]
December 4, 2008 – 9:27 pm
A report from the Globe And Mail (Sportsnet is a Canadian sports channel and website):
Rogers Sportsnet has pulled NFL commentator Chris Landry off the air and removed his column from Sportsnet.ca following an allegation of plagiarism.
Some of Landry’s columns on Sportsnet.ca have contained word for word passages from Internet pieces written by Mike Lombardi and [...]
December 3, 2008 – 8:00 am
Poynter’s Amy Gahran has an interesting post up about a false report from the Press Association that moved its way around the web:
On Nov. 29, the story ran in Wales Online: “We thought we were safe… then CNN stepped in!” said the headline. As of this writing you can still find it listed in the [...]
November 26, 2008 – 8:00 am
Last week, The Onion mislabeled a photo of an Apache trout as a rainbow trout. Happy, Vince from Wyoming? (This was on the site’s homepage.)
Thanks, Dave!
November 13, 2008 – 8:00 am
A man posing as a McCain campaign advisor managed to convince several media outlets to take him seriously. In the end, he’s a filmmaker looking for publicity. Take it away, New York Times:
It was among the juicier post-election recriminations: Fox News Channel quoted an unnamed McCain campaign figure as saying that Sarah Palin did not [...]
October 31, 2008 – 11:20 am
An earlier version of this story conflated two non-existent audio tapes of Michelle Obama. Link
Thanks, David!
