From a report in the Globe And Mail:

The CBC has admitted it inadvertently displayed the jacket of an anti-Sarah Palin book during a story about the former vice-presidential candidate that aired on The National.
The gaffe came Monday night during a piece on Ms. Palin’s hotly anticipated new memoir Going Rogue: An American Life.
A CBC spokesman confirmed that the network mistakenly put up a graphic depicting the cover of Going Rouge: Sarah Palin An American Nightmare…

CBC spokesman Jeff Keay says the mistake was fixed in a subsequent broadcast.

No mention of a correction. I also wonder if the same thing happened at the Herald in South Carolina, given this corection:

The wrong book cover ran in Monday s Herald with a story about Sarah Palin. Palin’s new book, Going Rogue, hits bookstores today.

In a TODAY Show interview on Wednesday, Sept. 24, following a report on potentially misleading advertising materials for the prescription drug Latisse (actress and Allergan spokesperson Brooke Shields incorrectly stated that there were no side effects seen in the clinical trials of the product. Side effects have been documented in such trials and consumers should go to http://latisse.com for detailed safety information.

Correction Sept. 29, 2009: The headline of this post originally misspelled Brooke Shields’ last name (”Sheilds”). Thanks to David and Daryl for spotting it.

Australia’s national public broadcaster has apologized for a report that claimed Israel’s security fence was ruled to be illegal by the Supreme Court.

The Australian Broadcasting Corp. apologized Wednesday to a Jewish lobby group and corrected an April 25 report which stated that “both the International Court of Justice and Israel’s Supreme Court have ruled that the West Bank wall is illegal and must be pulled down.” …

In a letter to the affairs council this week, Australian Broadcasting Corp. representative Kieran Doyle apologized for "this lapse in editorial standards." He advised that an editor’s note had been attached to the online transcript of the report noting the error, and that the matter also has been posted on the corrections page of ABC News…

Thanks, Steve!

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 the error.

Why was it so important to prevent this from happening again? The story was about the arrest of a registered sex offender at his residence.

A Crafton man is suing WPXI-TV over a broadcast story that he claims used his photo when the story was about another man with the same last name.
The story, broadcast Sept. 28, was about a South Fayette teacher and coach who resigned last year over what the school district called “inappropriate” e-mails that landed in the hands of other personnel and citizens in the district.
The plaintiff, Nicholas A. Schepis, filed suit in Allegheny County Court against WPXI, its local cable affiliate, PCNC, and their parent company, Cox Enterprises Inc. of Atlanta.
“Prior to the release of the broadcast, defendants took not even the most basic of action to inquire into the accuracy of their linking of the photograph of plaintiff to the allegations of criminal conduct on the part of Peter C. Schepis Jr.,” the suit said.
Peter Schepis is the former substitute teacher and middle school football coach who resigned after the e-mail message, which included text and a nude photo, got the district’s attention.
The suit charges the television station with defamation, negligence and invasion of privacy.
The station’s General Manager Ray Carter declined to say how the mix-up occurred.
“As soon as we were made aware of the issue, we immediately stopped airing the photo and we issued a correction,” Mr. Carter said. “We believe we responded quickly and appropriately.” Link

Thanks, Max!

Kindler was interviewed by Gazette columnist Bill Brownstein back in January for a piece about how comics would handle the new Obama administration. (Disclosure: Bill and I are friends.) At one point in the column, Kindler was quoted as saying, “Bottom line is that Letterman is unwatchable now. And the best Saturday Night Live can do is give us Fred Armisen trying to do Obama, but he is so weak.”

After the article appeared, Kindler called Brownstein to say he was misquoted, and it turns out he was. In a subsequent column, Brownstein added this note:

Because of an unfortunate static disruption while recording an interview with comic Andy Kindler for my column of Jan. 21 – about the death of political comedy with the departure of Dubya – a key word, “not,” went missing. The Kindler quote should have read: “Bottom line is that only Letterman is not unwatchable now.” And not: “Letterman is unwatchable now.”
Kindler’s concern over this omission is not unwarranted: he is an occasional correspondent for Letterman’s Late Show. “The ironic part of this mix-up is that David Letterman is one of the few people whose comedy I have unconditional love for,” Kindler says. “I think that’s the proper context for the word ‘irony.’ If it’s not, that would be ironic.”
However, and not surprisingly, Kindler still stands by his statement that with little to mock about Barack Obama for the time being, he will start focusing more on Jay Leno,”the next big threat facing our country.”

Kindler wanted to make sure everyone knew what he really meant, so he made a point of mentioning the misquote during his recent appearance on Letterman’s show. The relevant bit starts at about the 1:30 mark.

Thanks, Paul!

David Price, of London law firm David Price Solicitors and Advocates, told Judge Charles Gray at the high court in London today that Amanda Hudson had been “extremely shocked and distressed” by the false picture that had been painted of her daughter Jodie’s birthday party in Marbella, Spain…
“The Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mirror, the Sun, the London Paper and the Daily Express have published prominent apologies in their respective newspapers and online,” Price told the high court.
“Times Online, Sky News and Metro Online have published apologies on their respective websites. In addition, Mrs Hudson will be receiving a substantial sum in damages and her legal costs will be paid,” he said.
The court heard that the coverage claimed her house had been either “trashed” or “destroyed” by drunk and out-of-control gatecrashers.
“The true position is that the house was not trashed, wrecked or destroyed. Only very minor damage was caused to one door and no property was stolen,” Price said.
“Similarly, no furniture was trashed or thrown into the swimming pool. Mrs Hudson did not permit alcohol to be served and was in attendance throughout the party as were a number of private security guards that she had employed as a reasonable precaution…

A sample of the apologies, which remind me of 2006’s Correction of the Year:

Our report (”400 Trash Eur4M Villa”, 30 March 2008) said that Amanda Hudson’s home on the Costa del Sol had been trashed by teenagers attending her daughter’s 16th birthday party, who had also stolen property.
We now accept that these allegations were untrue. We apologise to Amanda for the embarrassment caused.

OUR report (”Off their Facebook”, May 30, 2008) said that Amanda Hudson’s house on the Costa del Sol had been wrecked by drunken and out of control teenagers attending her daughter’s 16th birthday party, who had also stolen property. We also referred to an internet posting in which it was claimed that Amanda had punched Jodie because of what happened. We now accept that these allegations were untrue and we apologise to Amanda for the distress and embarrassment caused.

OUR report (”GBP 4M villa trashed by party-crashers”, 30 May 2008) said that Amanda Hudson’s home on the Costa del Sol had been trashed by teenagers attending her daughter’s 16th birthday party, who had also stolen property. We now accept that these allegations were untrue. We apologise to Amanda for the embarrassment caused.

AN article on 30 May 2008 ‘Trail of destruction at £4.4m villa after 400 crash Facebook party’ suggested that Amanda Hudson failed to exercise parental control over her daughter’s 16th birthday party and that her property was badly damaged by drunken teenagers. We accept that these allegations were untrue and we apologise to Amanda Hudson for any embarrassment caused.

Thanks, Dave!

News Cycle reports that the transcript has been corrected.

A few tipsters noted the error last night in the Nightly News segment about author James Brady (a picture of the former press secretary was used). Minutes later, Brian Williams said: “Quick note here. As you might have noted last segment we briefly showed the wrong photo when we were reporting on the death of columnist James Brady. We apologize.”

The Nightly News is  pretty good about publishing corrections on MSNBC.com, but this mistake isn’t there.

Thanks, Steve!

Guam – CNN has agreed to provide free air time for commercials touting Guam as a tourist destination to make up for the networks mistake in airing footage of Yap last year and calling it Guam.
The Guam visitors bureau says the TV commercials promoting Guam as a world-class destination will begin airing on CNN and CNN International next week.
The commercial are being provided at no cost, after GVB complained to CNN about the erroneous report that aired on May 24, last year.
According to a release, GVB says it felt strongly that the footage misrepresented Guam’s culture and the island’s cosmopolitan appeal.
The TV commercials will air for one week, beginning Monday, January 19 until Sunday the 25th.

This is the first time I’ve seen a news organization offer advertising as compensation for an editorial mistake. Does it mean CNN didn’t  air a correction? Or is the ad in addition to a correction?

A note from Charlie Rose: Our annual obituary program on December 31st included erroneous information. We included the name of George Butler the filmmaker on the obituary list. George is alive and well in New Hampshire making a film about veterans returning from Afghanistan. The George Butler who died in 2008 is not George Butler the filmmaker who is my friend of nearly 40 years. I sincerely regret this error and will have George Butler on the show when we return from holiday. Link

Thanks, Addison!

Thanks, Steve!