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Bad for business

June 23, 2008 – 8:00 am

In the article on dining out in Durban (”Suburban Durban bliss”, FM Life June 6), it was stated that there was talk that 9th Avenue Bistro might be closing. Chef-owner Carly Goncalves points out that this is not true. The FM regrets the error.

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A drain on the source

June 20, 2008 – 8:00 am

MASSEY UNIVERSITY economist Dr Greg Clydesdale said Pacific Islanders have less productivity and are less likely to contribute to economic growth but he did not use the term “a drain on the economy” as reported in The Dominion Post of May 20.

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Tried in the press

June 20, 2008 – 8:00 am

A Bay Area News Group story in Wednesday’s Daily News (”Man pleads no contest in DUI crash”) incorrectly stated Keith Knudsen’s plea. He pleaded not guilty to charges of gross vehicular manslaughter in connection with a fatal car crash last week. The Daily News regrets the error.

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Not an accused rapist

June 18, 2008 – 8:00 am

AN ARTICLE published on June 2 wrongly stated that Brad Shipton was acquitted of raping Louise Nicholas in 1994 after two trials had been aborted. This is incorrect.
Brad Shipton was not involved in any rape trial as an accused in 1994. That trial related to another man who has permanent name suppression.

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And that’s all we’re telling you

June 18, 2008 – 8:00 am

A story Saturday on a Toronto page contained incorrect information. Link
This was one of two June 17 corrections issued by the paper. The other correction appears to have no relation to this entry  because it refers to a story published on Monday, rather than Saturday. So is this really the full correction, or did someone [...]

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Spectator apologizes after criticism of owners edited out of book review

June 16, 2008 – 8:00 am

In our issue of 22 March, we published a review by Sir Peregrine Worsthorne of Stephen Robinson’s biography of Lord Deedes. The review was edited, against Sir Peregrine’s wishes, leaving the reader with the incorrect impression that Lord Deedes had called his colleagues a ’stinking mob’.
We carried a letter by Stephen Robinson on 29 March [...]

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Three years later, a correction

June 13, 2008 – 8:00 am

Because of an editing error, an article on May 2, 2005, about the suggestion by Jeff Van Gundy, the coach of the Houston Rockets at the time, that fouls were being called more readily and unfairly on his team’s center, Yao Ming, during the N.B.A. playoffs referred incorrectly to the genesis of Van Gundy’s concern. [...]

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Too many Paulas

June 6, 2008 – 8:00 am

A quote attributed to Paula Opdam in Port Colborne council chambers on May 26 concerning the proposed patio for the Canalside Pub and Eatery should have been attributed to Paula Kaye.
Opdam was not in attendance at the meeting.
The Tribune apologizes for the error. Link
Thanks, Terry!

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A note of Regret

May 30, 2008 – 8:00 am

I’m in Winnipeg attending the Professional Writers Association of Canada’s National Conference & AGM. Regular posting will resume on June 3, but feel free to email anything notable. I’ll put it up when I’m back.
-Craig Silverman

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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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