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Toronto TV news station ordered to air statement admitting it breached broadcast standards

May 9, 2008 – 8:00 am

The Torontoist blog has an interesting story about a man, a would-be burglar, and a series of remarkable photos. Plus, a little bit of copyright infringement.
In July of last year, Joel Charlebois, a Toronto resident, caught a man trying to break into his home. While trying to escape, the man fell from a second floor [...]

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James Frey still has accuracy issues

May 5, 2008 – 8:00 am

A story briefly published May 1 on msnbc.com about author James Frey’s interview with Vanity Fair magazine included some information that could have been unclear.
The Vanity Fair story reported that, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, a friend of Frey’s, told the magazine that Frey was sent a copy of The Smoking Gun’s 13,000-word report on the discrepencies in [...]

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A mistake of Titanic proportions

May 5, 2008 – 8:00 am

An article on April 20 about Rome at night misidentified the figure from mythology represented in the centerpiece sculpture of the Trevi Fountain. It is Oceanus, the Titan who the ancient Greeks believed ruled the watery elements — not Neptune, the Roman god of the sea. (The error has appeared for years in travel guides [...]

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NY Daily News tries to scrub away a bad error

April 30, 2008 – 9:55 pm

Earlier this morning, a story on the New York Daily News’ website reported that New York Rangers forward Sean Avery “was rushed to a Manhattan hospital Wednesday morning in cardiac arrest just hours after his team’s playoff loss.” The story also reported that Avery was “unconscious and not breathing.”
The information was attributed to “sources” — [...]

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Correction to correction

April 15, 2008 – 4:00 pm

The writer of the obituary of Paul Arden (page 32, April 9) was not Jon Ekel, nor even John Elek (Corrections and clarifications, page 36, April 10), but Jon Elek. Apologies. Link

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Death by media

April 14, 2008 – 8:00 am

An obituary for Jason Marvin Nichols should not have appeared in Friday’s paper. Mr. Nichols is alive.
The death notice is online, but the correction isn’t.
Thanks, Jonathan!

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The 1979 Iranian evolution?

March 24, 2008 – 8:00 am

Reader Jonathan spotted this typo in an online slideshow by Portfolio magazine (click for larger):

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Steal this audiobook

March 6, 2008 – 8:00 am

Penguin audiobooks will not be copyright-free, as we said in a headline. They are to be free of digital copyright protection technology, allowing them to be downloaded on to digital devices. Unauthorised copying of the audiobooks will still be a violation of copyright (Penguin audiobooks to be copyright-free, page 24, March 4). Link

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Rest is fine

January 14, 2008 – 8:00 am

An obituary Friday about Sir Edmund Hillary, who with Tenzing Norgay became the first to scale Mount Everest, misidentified the route they took to the summit. It is the South Col, not the South Tor. In comparing the feat to one by Charles A. Lindbergh, the obituary misstated Lindbergh’s accomplishment. Though he was the first [...]

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One columnist’s confession

January 7, 2008 – 8:00 am

FishBowlNY spotted a column by John Baer of the Philadelphia Daily News in which the writer fesses up to the mistakes he made in 2007. It’s a cleansing read:
…This is the year-end column in which I admit mistakes I made in the name of truth-seeking - some of them sort of technical, others just plain [...]

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Massaging an accusation

November 28, 2007 – 8:00 am

An article (”IVF doctor cleared of inflating birth rates”, 10 Nov) contained several errors: the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority did not retract anything its representative, Ms Angela McNab, had said on the BBC programme about IVF doctor Mr Mohamed Taranissi when it [...]

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Fuzzy numbers etc.

October 13, 2007 – 4:41 pm

A graph accompanying yesterday’s article ‘Cruel Tcard twist to hit commuters’ incorrectly showed the share price of the company ERG in dollars. The price should have been in cents. Our apologies for over-exciting shareholders. Link
Thanks, Leslie!

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Fuzzy numbers etc.

October 13, 2007 – 4:34 pm

We said that the average carbon emission for each British flyer is 603kg and converted this to 95lb. In fact 603kg is 1329lb (Britons named world’s biggest emitters of CO2 from air travel, page 15, October 10). Link

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Not wild about Harry

July 25, 2007 – 8:00 am

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Accuracy Resources

May 18, 2007 – 8:40 pm

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Fuzzy numbers etc.

April 2, 2007 – 8:00 am

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Homophone alert

February 15, 2007 – 8:00 am

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LA Times still flubbing music titles

March 20, 2006 – 8:00 am

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Bad day at The Guardian

January 27, 2005 – 9:32 am

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