The penthouse was not sold to Mr. Gouzer, who no longer works at Sotheby’s. He is renting the home, and his name appears on legal documents for an LLC that did make the purchase. The buyer is in fact a foreigner “who no one would have ever heard of,” Mr. Gouzer’s attorney told The Observer. [...]
Posting has been intermittent/non-existent of late because this site was infected with malware and required some serious work. I managed to find someone to do the heavy lifting and get things fixed. Thanks, Kai! She did a great job and I highly recommend her. You can expect regular posts as of today. And in case [...]
Gawker noticed that the Washington Post mistakenly published a version of a story that still included all of the editor's notes and direction to the writer. Here's a sample of what some readers saw: Tamika Felder figured she was young and healthy and could skip getting Pap smears for a few years when her job [...]
As you may have noticed, this site was recently placed on Google's naughty list, meaning it was labeled an attack site. (My delay in updating to the latest version of WordPress enabled some lovely folks to place malware on a few pages.) Things have been cleaned up, thanks largely to my friend Patrick Tanguay, who [...]
I'm a bit delayed in noting this correction from earlier this month (it was sent in by a few people and noted by Jim Brady on Twitter): Because of incorrect information from the Prince George's County Animal Management Group, this Animal Watch item incorrectly referred to a bird rescued Feb. 5 in Laurel in an [...]
Mediaite has an interesting item about Fox News mistaking footage from last year's CPAC for this year's event: This weekend, Rep. Ron Paul won the straw poll at this year’s CPAC the second consecutive year. However, when he was interviewed about victory during America’s Newsroom on Fox News, yesterday, they aired the clip of his [...]
Golden Globes: A critic's notebook on the Golden Globes in the Jan. 18 Calendar, about how passion and quality can pay off in the movie business, described "Barney's Version" as "a $3-million adaptation of Mordecai Richler's acerbic novel and largely backed by Canadian interests." In fact, the budget was $30 million. Link Report an error
An obituary on Tuesday about Richard Winters, who commanded the World War II Army unit that was the subject of the book and television series ''Band of Brothers,'' contained several errors. A 1944 battle in which he was shot in the leg was in Carentan, France, shortly after D-Day, not on Utah Beach in Normandy [...]
A story in Thursday's Herald incorrectly reported that Andrew Barnette, who receives Meals on Wheels, has no legs. The Rock Hill man has multiple sclerosis that affects the use and structure of his legs. Report an error
Screwing up is understandable, but when you repeatedly screw up the same way you've got a problem. At almost every stage of this story the actors involved were collapsing under the weight of their own slavish obedience to a fundamentally broken… well… 'system' is the right word, but I find myself toying with 'ideology'. The [...]
An article – headlined WikiLeaks cables reveal that Foreign Office lied to parliament over Diego Garcia – could have been taken to suggest that Chris Bryant MP lied to parliament in his former post of Foreign Office minister. That is not the case. We apologise to Mr Bryant for suggesting otherwise (2 December, guardian.co.uk). Link [...]
On Saturday, November 20, 2010 the Kuwait Times published an article titled 'Multi ministry camera ban frustrates artists' in which incorrect information was provided. The newspaper regrets failing to verify the information. The article wrongly stated that a ban on DSLR cameras was implemented by the Ministries of Information, Social Affairs and Finance. This information [...]
A "correction and retraction" from Crikey, a popular site in Australia: Last Wednesday, in a work commemorating the impending nuptials of Prince William and Kate Middleton, Crikey cartoonist First Dog on the Moon used the registered service mark of The Franklin Mint. Crikey has now removed The Franklin Mint registered trademark and would like to [...]
AN ARTICLE published in news.com.au on November 9 reported an interview with the Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth Bank, Sir Ralph Norris, concerning the bank's decision to raise its home loan mortgage rate by 0.45 per cent. One statement linked two themes that arose during the interview – the health of the banking system [...]
Tanks One: We were on the wrong side when we captioned a photograph of "new German tanks on their way to the Russian Front, 1942", which accompanied a review of Engines of War: How Wars Were Won and Lost on the Railways by Christian Wolmar, (Hitler was possibly a petrol-head, 6 November, page 8, Review). [...]
A reader expressed doubts about the provenance of a figure for the estimated global worth of the pornography industry, mentioned in a feature as $96bn (£61bn) in 2006. As it said in the piece – Men against porn, 26 October, page 10, G2 – this estimate appeared in a recent book, Pornland. To clarify: the [...]
A report in The Caucus column on Friday about polling in the midterm elections referred incorrectly to the Democratic nominee for governor of Florida. The candidate, Alex Sink, is a woman. Link Report an error
A story on Page B1 Saturday about a court appeal by Hyde Park Baptist Church incorrectly reported the marital status of the plaintiffs. The story identified Terry Curtis as the ex-husband of Tara Turner. Curtis and Turner are married. Link Report an error
A "FACT CHECK" story on Social Security in Friday's Monitor quoted Paul Hodes spokesman Matt House as saying Kelly Ayotte supported privatization and would "subject Granite State seniors' Social Security benefits to the Wall Street casino." The story said incorrectly that House had made that statement last week. In fact, House made the statement in [...]
Washington Post columnist John Kelly recently turned up a dandy of a correction from the Post's archives. Read his column for the story that preceded this correction, which was published in 1897: LANHAM, MD., AUG. 18 — The account of a horsewhipping in this morning's Post, in which Andrew Hancock and Clifford Lanham were the [...]
Well, this is strange. Plagiarist Gerald Posner, who lost his job at the Daily Beast earlier this year and has since been accused of literary theft in his books as well, is now working as a lawyer and representing Qayum Karzai, brother of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, among other members of the Karzai family. Part [...]
In an Aug. 10 story about Japan’s prime minister apologizing for the country’s 1910-1945 colonial rule of Korea, The Associated Press erroneously cited a South Korean presidential spokesman as saying Seoul had accepted the apology. President Lee Myung-bak told Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan during a telephone conversation that he “took note” of the statement [...]
An article on July 21 about David Cameron, Britain’s new prime minister, and his austerity measures to slash the national budget, misstated the number of unemployed people in the country. It is 2.5 million, not 8 million. The article also misstated the government portion of the total work force in Britain. It is 21.1 percent, [...]
The Books of The Times review on June 25, about “Denial: A Memoir of Terror†by Jessica Stern, included a quotation from an essay by Joyce Carol Oates in The New York Times Book Review in 1981 on responses to violence in her writing that misstated the final word in a German expression about what [...]
The Mass Chicken Dance for Ellen starts at 6 p.m. today in front of Kitchener City Hall. Incorrect information appeared in a headline in Wednesday’s Record. Report an error
