November 9, 2009 – 8:00 am
FOLLOWING our report entitled Welcome to booze-fuelled Belfast, (20 September 2009) Rachel Murphy, whose photograph was published with the report, has informed us that she does not drink alcohol and did not do so on that night. She disassociates herself from the behaviour described in the report.
October 19, 2009 – 8:00 am
ON October 7, 2007 we reported that Ms McGuinness had charged the Find Madeleine Fund pounds 20,000 in excess of her agreed fee, which had come as a surprise to the Fund’s managers, and that following a discussion with Gerry McCann, she was forced to part company with the Fund.
We accept that Ms McGuinness did [...]
October 16, 2009 – 8:00 am
Heather Holmes of Brad J. Lamb Realty represented Dale Sonier in his purchase of retail space for his Toronto sewing store. The space is 3,400 square feet, not 34,000 square feet as reported in Tuesday’s Property Report.
October 7, 2009 – 8:00 am
Steve Bunce: In Bunce takes the biscuit (1 October, page 12, Sport) we wrongly suggested that Steve Bunce, the boxing commentator, controlled the website bringbackbunce.net and had claimed on the site to have high-profile supporters, including Bertie Ahern and David Blunkett. We accept that Mr Bunce could not have made any such claims, as he [...]
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 [...]
August 12, 2009 – 8:00 am
Editor’s Note: This version corrects the original editorial which implied that physicist Stephen Hawking, a professor at the University of Cambridge, did not live in the UK. Link
Oh, but there’s so much more to this Editor’s Note from Investor’s Business Daily. It omits the original, ridiculous statement contained in the editorial. And here it [...]
Student assault: A brief report wrongly said that a Chinese student had been stabbed in St James on Saturday night (Student stabbed, page 18, July 21). In fact, police have alleged that the student was struck in the mouth with a screwdriver and sprayed with pepper spray.
Phineas Gage image: An article in Thursday’s Section A about the discovery of a daguerreotype showing brain-injury patient Phineas Gage said the iron rod driven into his skull by a blast was successfully removed. In fact, the blast that drove the rod through his brain also drove it out the other side (it landed 25 [...]
A reader sent this image of a photo/photo caption mismatch in the Toronto Star:
This is the image it was eventually replaced with:
*Correction: The original headline on this post read "The curtains don’t match the drapes." That’s redundant. It has been corrected.
I’m on vacation so posting will resume on June 2. In the meantime, if you spot any errors or corrections of note, please email them to me.
In The Daily Observer of Wednesday, April 1, a story ran as an April Fool’s joke on the front page that upset many readers. It was intended to amuse and entertain, and not meant to offend anyone. We apologize if some found it offensive. Link
Some background from the Ottawa Citizen:
A Pembroke newspaper that drew criticism [...]
February 24, 2009 – 8:00 am
A capsule summary with the Advertising column on Thursday, referring to videos on NYTimes.com about commercials for the auto insurer Geico, described their content incorrectly. As the column correctly reported, Warren E. Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway are mentioned in print advertisements for Geico, not in the commercials.
The column also described incorrectly one of the commercials, [...]
January 13, 2009 – 8:00 am
A report on Saturday on the crossbow shooting of an Auckland woman quoted former New Zealand First law and order spokesman Ron Mark renewing his call for the Government to require licensing of crossbows as firearms. Mark’s comments were historical and he has made no recent comment on the issue.
Meaning: they dug up an old [...]
October 16, 2008 – 8:00 am
Because of a transcription error, an article on Sunday about corruption involving contracts for Army missile defense programs misstated a word in a quotation from Lt. Gen. Jay Garner, who briefly headed the missile command. In an interview, describing how Army officials would seek Congressional approval for money that was not contained in the military’s [...]
October 8, 2008 – 8:00 am
Writing on his personal blog, a British priest mused that gay people should have “Sodomy can seriously damage your health” tattooed on their backsides, among other suggestions. This caused an uproar, and the priest, Peter Mullen, later issued an apology. He also happens to be a columnist for the Northern Echo newspaper, and its editor [...]
September 19, 2008 – 8:00 am
…but instead of explaining and fixing it, we’ll just send you to another website.
A chart included with an article Sept. 17 about how to maximize bank deposit insurance through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. included incorrect information. For more information, click here. Link
August 22, 2008 – 12:22 pm
I’m taking a break, which means new posts will appear on Sept. 11. In the meantime, feel free to send along any notable errors and corrections; I’ll post them when I’m back.
UPDATE Sept 11: The site has been experiencing some problems. I’m fixing them today and will resume posting tomorrow. Thanks for your patience.
Below is a job ad posted by Utah’s Standard-Examiner. They’re looking for someone who has a “solid knowledge of grammer.” What about spelling?
Thanks, Rudi!
In a June 27 “Other Magazines,” Morgan Smith misspelled Michael Kinsley’s last name. Link
UCLA film school: The Scriptland column in the July 1 Calendar section about Richard Walter, chair of UCLA’s screenwriting program, identified UCLA donors David Geffen, Barbra Streisand, Jerry Lewis and Jane and Terry Semel as alumni of the university. In fact, Walter referred to them as prominent entertainment industry figures, not as UCLA alumni. None [...]
Because of an editing error, an article on Thursday about negotiations over a security agreement between Iraq and the United States, under which private security contractors would no longer be immune from Iraqi law, gave an outdated name for a private security contractor with a reputation in Iraq for excessive force. It is Blackwater Worldwide, [...]
Guardian comment editor Toby Manhire has blogged about why the paper chose to remove an article published under the byline of Morgan Tsvangirai, head of the opposition party in Zimbabwe. It appears that he had not approved the piece prior to it being submitted. Writes Manhire:
A piece that appeared in the Guardian newspaper and online, [...]
The context of a quote from Isaac Larian, president/CEO of MGA Entertainment Inc., was incorrect in Dan Bernstein’s column Thursday. The column suggested Larian was referring to the Mattel vs. MGA lawsuit over who owns the Bratz doll when he was quoted saying, “It’s kind of stupid.” In an e-mail, Larian wrote that he meant [...]
Jodi Guber: A photo caption with the Cause Celebre column in Friday’s Calendar section misspelled Jodi Guber’s name as Jodie, and misidentified her as producer Peter Guber’s wife. She is his daughter. Link
We said in a leader item, In praise of . . . Synecdoche, page 28, May 27, that prolepsis means stopping short of a word that the sentence seems to be leading to, as in “Well, I’ll be . . .”. That would be ellipsis or perhaps aposiopesis. Prolepsis involves the idea of anticipation, for [...]
