Category Archives: Regret Articles

Misquotes that take on a life of their own

Deja vu: Regarding those “Polish death camps”

That’s Edgar Allan Poe

As was the case with a certain James Dobson correction, we have noticed a tendency for newspapers to misspell the middle name of author Edgar Allan Poe. The latest misspelling happened in the Chicago Tribune. But the paper is far from alone. A recent collection of Poe name corrections:
Chicago Tribune
July 02, 2006
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A tale of two public editors

WSJ introduces corrections search

Regret The Interview: A conversation with Reuters’ Paul Holmes

Times reporter questions the corrections

A.M. Rosenthal and the modern correction

Attention journalists everywhere: James Dobson is not a minister

Our obsessive cataloging of corrections occasionally enables us to spot a pattern. Whether it’s the failure of newspapers to identify someone they initially misidentified in a photo, or the inability of newspapers to accurately report on, well, newspapers, we sometimes feel as though we’re listening to a broken record. Such was the case when we [...]

A note of Regret

A note of Regret

AJC reporter resigns after plagiarizing; the lack of a plagiarism standard

Questioning the Times questionnaire

Those elusive broadcast corrections

Sources with tall tales to tell, and why the press can’t resist them

Do corrections “heal”?

The media and the miners, part 2

The media and the miners

By now it’s common knowledge that a terrible, tragic mistake was made in the reporting of 13 miners trapped in a West Virginia coal mine. For a few hours the world believed that all but one of the men had made it out alive. Because of production deadlines, many papers reported this on their front [...]

The story behind “Jew Jersey,” 2005’s Correction of the Year

Crunks ‘05: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections

Let’s just say it: This was a very bad year.
That’s the inevitable conclusion after just a few minutes spent reviewing this year’s long list of errors, corrections and plagiarists. But it’s about more than just quantity. What jumps out is that this was a year during which we witnessed the astounding consequences of media errors.
It [...]

2005 Plagiarism Round-Up

Oh what a year for plagiarists. Herewith, a quick collection of the year’s instances of plagiarism in the media. We’ve tried to catch them all, but can’t promise that this is a definitive list. Please email us if you know of one we’ve missed. (Then we’ll take your information and use it as our own [...]

Cox News Service story fabricates, plagiarizes from St. Pete Times

A note of Regret

Salon redesigns and its corrections suffer

NYT introduces op-ed corrections policy, publishes Krugman correction