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 [...]
Jack Shafer brings word of another incident of plagiarism at the New York Times:
New York Times Standards Editor Craig Whitney apologized to Manhattan Media this afternoon after today’s (March 11) Times lifted from a Manhattan Media story published on the Web and e-mailed to a media list yesterday.
The lift, taken from Manhattan Media’s City [...]
In the feature, “The 10 Hottest Couples” (Feb. 2008), EBONY ran an image of Russell Simmons in which he was dressed in a Halloween costume–as an ’80s rapper. The picture was presented out of context, in a story about relationships in which the magazine was celebrating his and his family’s ability to navigate children and [...]
A March 4 story about singer Elton John’s Kitchener concert included an inappropriate and insensitive reference to patients at Homewood Health Centre. The Record regrets the words used and apologizes for the lapse in judgment. Link
Here’s a letter to the editor that contains the offending line:
It was with great concern that we at Homewood Health [...]
ON 10 February 2008 we published an article “Tory MP in Exes Storm” which alleged that Mark Pritchard MP faced calls for an investigation over claims that his wife was on the parliamentary payroll whilst working as an air stewardess. We now accept this allegation was false.
Mrs Pritchard does not work as an air stewardess [...]
Over the past couple of weeks, Regret readers have been debating the necessity of this NPR apology:
In our newscast at 9:30 a.m. ET on Feb. 14, the phrase “dark continent” was used by one of our newscasters in reference to President Bush’s trip to Africa. This was totally inappropriate and offensive, and we apologize. [...]
Last week in Gwen Gill’s “Top Billing bash had everything except the buzz” an editing error implied that Patrick Schofield was looking around after his marriage ended. The reference should have been to Tumisho Masha. We apologise for the error. Link
Thanks, Anne!
February 29, 2008 – 8:00 am
James Wakeford was granted statutory permission to use medicinal marijuana by the federal government on June 9, 1999. A photograph of Mr. Wakeford was inappropriately used to illustrate a Jan. 14 column on compassion clubs, which until a Federal Court ruling in January provided marijuana to patients outside the law. Mr. Wakeford remains opposed to [...]
February 20, 2008 – 8:00 am
From the Western Suburbs Weekly of Perth, Australia:
AN ARTICLE last week quoted Nedlands MLA Sue Walker as saying the Liberal Party had given her sparse emotional, political or financial support during a press conference to announce her resignation from the party.
These comments should not have been published as a direct quote by Ms Walker as [...]
February 18, 2008 – 8:00 am
In our newscast at 9:30 a.m. ET on Feb. 14, the phrase “dark continent” was used by one of our newscasters in reference to President Bush’s trip to Africa. This was totally inappropriate and offensive, and we apologize. We will apologize on air in the 9:30 a.m. ET newscast on Monday, Feb. 18, for allowing [...]
February 18, 2008 – 8:00 am
IN THE Weekender’s front page report of 9 February 2008, entitled “Farmworkers were ‘moved to make way for ponies’ in Plett”, a number of inaccurate and untrue statements were made of and concerning Mr Clifford Elphick, and the Company, Gem Diamonds Limited, listed on the London Stock Exchange.
The article confused Letseng Diamonds (Pty) Ltd, which [...]
February 14, 2008 – 8:00 am
On December 5 2007 we published a report concerning proceedings taking place in Birmingham County Court before Recorder Timothy Straker QC sitting as an Election Commissioner.
We reported that a Mr Abdul Aziz was a potential witness in the case, and that he had submitted a written statement to the court but was too frightened to [...]
February 13, 2008 – 8:00 am
An apology from the Western Suburbs Weekly of Perth, Australia:
LAST week s Western View was about The Beauty of Africa Ball, which is a fundraising event to raise money to educate street children in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
The headline Ugly face of Africa on show was not supplied by guest columnist Casta Tungaraza but [...]
February 8, 2008 – 8:00 am
In an article on page A10 of the Jan. 30 edition of the Citizen, a number of inaccurate statements were made about Ottawa surgeon Dr. Joel Freeman.
Dr. Freeman was never convicted of any offence over an alleged road rage incident in September 2004 and received an absolute discharge after pleading guilty to the charge of [...]
January 30, 2008 – 8:00 am
This is a new one. A writer for the San Antonio Express-News interviewed a couple for a story about “the secret to a happy marriage” and then filed the piece last summer. It was held until recently and, unfortunately, the couple died in the interim. The story didn’t note that fact. The paper decided to [...]
January 28, 2008 – 8:00 am
IN THE weekend edition of January 12-13, The Courier-Mail published an article, “Aurukun rape victim in hiding”, which incorrectly said that a 12-year-old child had been raped by her father before she was five. The Courier-Mail regrets the error, retracts the allegation and apologises to the father for any distress and embarrassment caused as a [...]
January 28, 2008 – 8:00 am
IN last week’s issue we carried a report on Niall Mellon which included a statement that he had “angrily denied” reports that some of the houses built by the Niall Mellon Township Trust (NMTT) in South Africa were being rented out by their new owners.
This statement by the Sunday Independent was totally incorrect. In fact, [...]
January 28, 2008 – 8:00 am
DUE to an error, the photograph of Mr Jimmy Guerin used to illustrate our report on page 5 last week under the headline: Fury Over Gilligan’s EUR50,000 Book Deal was incorrectly captioned as being John Gilligan, the convicted drugs criminal whose photograph also appeared on the same page. We wish to apologise to Mr Guerin [...]
January 28, 2008 – 8:00 am
In Jim Slotek’s review of the film All Hat published in yesterday’s Toronto Sun, the late Bruno Kirby was listed as one of the stars. In fact, it is Luke Kirby who stars in the movie, and he is very much alive. The Sun apologizes to Luke and regrets the error.
January 28, 2008 – 8:00 am
In a story published on Page 7 of the Thursday edition of the Ottawa Sun, it was incorrectly reported that an expert testified that OPP officers, involved in a fatal Nov. 2005 shooting, did not follow their training.
It was incorrectly stated that an OPP officer broke OPP rules regarding the shooting. It was also incorrectly [...]
January 25, 2008 – 8:00 am
An editor’s note form the New York Press:
It has come to our attention that some of the questions in this week’s debut of the New York Press’s new sex-advice column, “Lip Service,” were taken from past columns by Dan Savage, the nationally-syndicated sex-advice columnist and editor of The Stranger. The author of the column, [...]
January 23, 2008 – 8:00 am
The Torontoist blog recently put up a post noting the similarities between one of its articles and a subsequent one in the Toronto Sun. (Disclosure: I recently joined some of the Torontoist folks on the bloggers team for a broadcast of Test The Nation on CBC.) Some folks took to the comments section to object [...]
