The article “Banker accused of sexual harassment” (April 14) concerned the alleged conduct of Michael Blomfield during his employment at the Commonwealth Bank. The Herald accepts that the allegations published about Mr Blomfield are untested and are regarded as false not only by Mr Blomfield but by the bank, which has thoroughly investigated them. The [...]
IN THE article “Lawyers, mugs and money”, published on April 21, the Herald reported that a judge had aborted a sexual assault trial saying that a three-day cross-examination of the alleged victim by the defence barrister Tania Evers had caused the trial to run off the rails.
This was incorrect.
The Herald accepts that the trial involved [...]
ON April 17 we published a report under the headline “Living Target” concerning Ger Dundon, a member of a Limerick family at the centre of a gangland feud.
In that report reference was made to James Cronin, a 20-year-old junior member of the McCarthy-Dundon gang, who was murdered and whose body was found half buried on [...]
ON June 12, 2005, we reported that Ms Lisa Nolan of Mounthawk Tralee had been arrested in Ecuador after a quantity of cocaine had been found in her luggage and that she was awaiting trial.
Although Ms Nolan was arrested and charged with drug trafficking offences in fact, contrary to our report, no drugs were found [...]
From The Sun of Australia:
A photograph appeared on the front page of The Sun on January 16 featuring Dr Leanna Kent standing in front of the new Headspace Centre at Riverway. The Headspace Centre is youth-friendly clinical and social recovery service for 12 to 25-year-olds. Youths featured in the photo have no connection with the [...]
AN article in yesterday’s Sport section indicated that Leigh Montagna admitted he was the St Kilda player responsible for shouting “You bash your f missus” at Essendon player Andrew Lovett on Friday night at the Telstra Dome. We would like to clarify that Montagna did not make the offending remark and apologise for any distress [...]
Due to an error in transcription, comments made by the photographer John Swannell (About Face, Magazine, 15 March) about the drinking habits of another portrait subject, George Melly, were mistakenly identified as relating to the actor and comedian Eric Sykes. We apologise wholeheartedly to Mr Sykes for this mix-up. Link
From AP:
CNN said Wednesday that commentator Jack Cafferty was referring to China’s leaders not the Chinese people when he described them as a “bunch of goons and thugs,” and apologized to anyone who thought otherwise.
On Tuesday, China demanded an apology for Jack Cafferty’s comments broadcast on CNN, in which he also described Chinese products as [...]
ON 10 February 2008 we published articles on our front page entitled “Kate and Anton…a late tango” and on pages 4 and 5 entitled “Strictly Friends” together with photographs of Kate Garraway and Anton du Beke. Although we did not expressly say that they were having an affair we now accept that the article alleged [...]
Leeds United: Our article, McAllister gets new Leeds deal (page 6, Sport, April 4), wrongly suggested that Leeds United FC has been guilty of abuses of insolvency regulations. This is untrue. We accept that there were no breaches of such regulations in connection with the 15-point deduction that was made at the start of the [...]
ON March 9, 2008, The Sunday Telegraph published an article entitled “Wall of silence”, which referred to Dr Patricia Salisbury.
That article falsely stated that Dr Patricia Salisbury was the subject of a complaint of a sexual assault on one of her patients, resulting in a restriction on her practice as a doctor.
The Sunday Telegraph unreservedly [...]
A report in Monday’s Waikato Times said police thought a man who died after his car crashed through a fence on Tower Rd, Matamata, may have suffered a heart attack. In fact, the crash victim was a 16-year-old youth, Brendon John Bonekamp, and his family say he did not suffer a heart attack. The Times [...]
Roy Greenslade of The Guardian thinks so, and he made a three-part argument earlier today:
Case one: yesterday it apologised in the high court to the Italian footballer Marco Materazzi who was infamously headbutted in the chest by Zinedine Zidane in the 2006 world cup final. The paper falsely claimed that the attack was prompted by [...]
This morning the Los Angeles Times issued a formal retraction for its March story about an assault on rapper Tupac Shakur. It had previously apologized for the article. (Regret post here.)
The apology did contain elements of a retraction, but it’s not a bad thing to see the paper follow up and drive home the point [...]
The London Times has a laugh at the expense of Loaded magazine:
Apology of the month comes from Loaded, the little boys’ magazine, which somehow persuaded itself that Heinz once supplied the Nazi regime with a version of alphabet spaghetti consisting of tiny swastikas. This is an urban myth. “We now accept that Heinz has never [...]
We may owe an apology to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Last month we dubbed it “Whitehall’s answer to Sir Elton John” after it emerged that it had spent £ 46,000 on pot plants in two years. Now we learn that staff at the Department for Children, Schools and Families spent £ 78,000 [...]
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch today published an apology today* after it discovered that a story published last Sunday contained a number of key inaccuracies. It also admitted that the paper’s standard verification procedures “were not followed during the reporting and editing process.”
At first blush, it appears to be yet another example of an unreliable source [...]
March 27, 2008 – 10:19 pm
How did the Los Angeles Times not realize it was being duped during its six-month investigation into the shooting of Tupac Shakur?
The paper has apologized for relying on forged documents in reporting a story about a 1994 attack on Shakur. The Times story took months of reporting and preparation; The Smoking Gun took roughly a [...]
In the previous issue, the article City of the Dead inadvertently attributed quotes to Jack Fisher described as “the trustee of the Jewish section” of Rookwood Cemetery. The(sydney)magazine accepts that the words quoted were not those of Mr Fisher and do not represent his views in any way. We apologise unreservedly to Mr Fisher for [...]
In ‘Grant “snubbed” by players’ (Sport, 2 March), we said Avram Grant was snubbed when Chelsea players failed to turn up to a team meeting on time, in the wake of their Carling Cup Final defeat. We now accept that while the team meeting was delayed by a few minutes due to an earlier players’ [...]
A March 15 photo caption incorrectly identified the man in the above photo as Jonathan Black. It is actually a photo of Toronto law student Chris O’Connor. Mr. O’Connor was in no way connected to the incident allegedly involving Black. The Star regrets the error and apologizes to Mr. O’Connor. Link
On Saturday, March 15, 2008, under the headline, ”Ghosts of HIH may come back to haunt Liberals”, The Canberra Times made a number of incorrect assertions about Goldman Sachs Australia, and its former chairman, the Federal Member for Wentworth, Mr Malcolm Turnbull, which it would like to correct. The Canberra Times accepts that at no [...]
A story on Page A1 in some editions Saturday incorrectly reported that a jury found against Dr. Gary Thompson and Dr. Michael Turner in connection with a 1998 child abuse case. The jury actually found in favor of both doctors. The story to the right reports the correct information. The Star apologizes for the error.
This [...]
Today was a historic day for newspaper apologies. A sad, shameful, embarrassingly historic day.
Two UK papers controlled by the same owner (Express Newspapers) issued front page apologies to a British couple, Kate and Gerry McCann. The apologies will be repeated in the related Sunday editions of both papers, the Sunday Express and Daily Star Sunday*.
In [...]
Pretoria News Weekend (March 15) erroneously said in a headline on page 2 that Tshwane executive mayor Dr Gwen Ramokgopa, in her state of the city address, had asked businesses not to employ immigrants.
In fact, she said the Tshwane Metro Council was concerned about illegal immigrants and urged construction companies and other businesses not to [...]
