Category Archives: Wire service

Assad, Osama… whatever

In an Oct. 29 story about Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani criticizing Democrats on Middle Eastern policy, The Associated Press erroneously reported Giuliani’s mention of Syrian President Bashar Assad as a reference to Osama bin Laden.
Giuliani said: “This is the world we live in. It’s not this happy, romantic-like world where we’ll negotiate with this [...]

But FDA was correct

In the headline of an Oct. 29 story about the FDA’s approval of a new leukemia drug, The Associated Press misspelled the name of the company and the disease. The drug company is Novartis, not Norvatis. The disease is leukemia, not leukemis. Link

Reuters turns Britney in(to a police station)

Fib one for the Gipper

History repeating

Resurrection

Additional pain and suffering

All journalists look alike

AP removes man’s legs

Another incorrect obit

Reprise, not reprisal

Fiction made reality

UPDATED: Rossiya’s Titanic error

The king is not amused

The backstory of several “bizarrely* inaccurate” articles

Fuzzy numbers etc.

Get your “dirty, despicable” crimes straight

AP corrects AP correspondent obit that included decade-old error

The perils of prepared remarks

Tony, not tiny

Africa 101

UPDATED: Don’t forget to check Reuters’ GBU blog for “Muttonhead Quail”

If you find yourself jonesing for more media errors, make sure you visit Reuters’ errors and feedback blog, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. A recent post notes the news service mistakenly called the Muttahida Quami Movement the “Muttonhead Quail Movement.” This of course reminds of its dubious report of last year about Queen [...]

Anti up

Fuzzy numbers etc.

Budge, not budget