Regret the Error

The Boston Herald has published a correction after it published a satirical article by Andy Borowitz as real news. Here’s the correction:

An article in today’s Herald regarding comments purportedly made by Vice President Dick Cheney was inaccurate and should have noted that it was based on a blogger’s satire and was not provided by the Associated Press.
Additionally, a report in today’s Herald regarding a union dispute at a Michigan nursing conference should have been credited to PRNewswire and not the Associated Press.
The Herald regrets the errors.

The mistake was spotted by Boston magazine. From its blog post:

“We were bamboozled,” Herald publisher Kevin Convey told Boston Daily. He explained that the item got picked up as straight news in Google, and was folded into unrelated wire reports from the AP, and appeared online and in the print edition.
“We failed to double-check the item against the Meet the Press website, which we should have done. We have changed our policies a bit to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” Convey added. The paper also posted a correction online, and will run an official correction in tomorrow’s edition.

See here, here, here and here for similar examples.

Thanks to Romenesko and Iris!