A column by Heather Mallick on July 28 contained a number of inaccurate statements about the well-known British journalist and author Melanie Phillips. Ms. Phillips has expressed her horror at the slaughter at Utoya, Norway in a clear and unambiguous way, writing “there can be no excuse, justification or rationale whatsoever for the atrocity perpetrated [...]
From a report by the Jewish Tribune: The Jewish Defence League of Canada (JDL) will sue CBC [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation] for defamation, said the JDL’s leader, after the country’s most prominent news organization called it a terrorist group. “This is a part of a campaign of defamation against people who are on the right wing,” [...]
ON June 24 last year we wrongly reported that Martin O’Neill, while manager of Aston Villa, had been secretly interviewed for the position of Liverpool manager, in breach of Premier League rules and his contract. We accept that no such interview took place. On August 10 and 11, following Mr O’Neill’s resignation as Aston Villa [...]
In his Friday essay on 15 April 2011 (“The Arab Awakening – a long time coming”) Robert Fisk quoted from an order said to have been issued by the Saudi Minister of the Interior, HRH Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud on 11 March, in which he alleged that Prince Nayef ordered his security forces [...]
IN last Saturday’s Journal we carried an article on the death of prominent North East businessman Bob Wall. Our Page 5 headline and article mistakenly said that Mr Wall died from variant CJD, or mad cow disease as it often referred to. However, Mr Wall was diagnosed as having sporadic CJD and this is not [...]
While the world is focused on the actions of the now-defunct News of the World (and possibly other British tabloids), on Friday eight British newspapers issued apologies for outrageous, prominent and defamatory front pages and articles that falsely painted Christopher Jefferies as a murderer. The Tabloid Watch blog has an excellent overview of the issue [...]
MONDAY’S story “Children thrive on words” included a statement about the clothes and toys used by children at Hebersham Public School, attributed to a deputy principal, Deidre O’Brien. She did not use the words reported, and the article did not accurately paraphrase what she said. The Herald apologises to Ms O’Brien, the school and parents [...]
We wish to apologise to Darach O’Scolai, the Irish language author and dramatist, for publishing incorrect figures concerning the sales of books authored by him in the Irish language over the past number of years. We regret any offence occasioned to Mr O’Scolai from the use of the incorrect figures in question. Report an error
AN article in The Australian yesterday (“How Murphy’s law of trading brought brokers down”, Page 1) said Sydney lawyer Christopher Murphy sent an email stating “Bloody hell, we are being smashed” to Lirim Emini, then chief executive of Opes Prime Stockbroking, which demonstrated that Mr Murphy caused the collapse of Opes Prime. In fact, the [...]
IN our article ‘eastenders extra’s killer to serve life’ we stated that Brian Atkinson, murderer of eastenders’ extra Kevlin eurie, had got eurie’s girlfriend pregnant. In fact it was the sister of one of eurie’s friends that was pregnant by Atkinson. We apologise for the mistake. (page 23, July 9). Report an error
Articles in the Guardian of Tuesday 12 July incorrectly reported that the Sun newspaper had obtained information on the medical condition of Gordon Brown’s son from his medical records. In fact the information came from a different source and the Guardian apologises for its error (The Brown files: How Murdoch papers targeted ex-PM’s family, 12 [...]
In earlier editions of last night’s Evening Times we carried, under the headline Smoking alert for mums a story which suggested that a new report promoted smoking during pregnancy. In fact the report by the UCL Institute for Women’s Health supported the long-held view that smoking while pregnant significantly increases the risk of serious birth [...]
IG Markets Pty Limited, its director, Tamas Szabo, and its executive and solicitor, Peter Richards, believe that an article published in The Sydney Morning Herald on October 28, 2010, titled “Cat’s Dinner” contained a number of errors and misleading assertions. The Sydney Morning Herald apologises to IG Markets Pty Limited, Tamas Szabo and Peter Richards [...]
Simon Dumenco objected after a piece he wrote for Ad Age was aggregated by the Huffington Post: HuffPo’s aggregation, titled “Anthony Weiner vs. Steve Jobs: Who Won On Twitter?,” consisted of basically a short but thorough paraphrasing/rewriting of the Ad Age post — using the same set-up (i.e., pointing out that Apple had the misfortune [...]
On July 3, 2011, an item in the Naked Eye column referred to a play called The Table of Knowledge based on the ICAC investigation into Wollongong City Council. The item incorrectly stated that Michael Kollaras had a sexual relationship with town planner Beth Morgan. The Sun-Herald now acknowledges that any such allegation against Michael [...]
WENN acknowledges that it mistakenly facilitated the publication of unfounded allegations regarding the status and professional standing of Omar Amanat, a founding member of the board of directors of Summit Entertainment LLC, the independent studio behind the Twilight Saga trilogy of movies. We have now ascertained that Mr. Amanat not only controls approximately twenty percent [...]
An article described the emergence of “a controversial ‘roadmap’ for reforms” in Syria that would leave Bashar al-Assad in power for now to oversee a secure transition to civil democracy (US pushing for Syrian opposition dialogue with Assad, 1 July, page 1). The plan was signed by Louay Hussein and Maan Abdelsalam, leading intellectuals in [...]
On behalf of The Rhinoceros Times, I apologize for the offensive political cartoon in the June 23 edition of The Rhinoceros Times. The cartoon appears to be two black male prisoners using poor grammar talking about being in jail. The males are supposed to be two white men. The color that was used for these [...]
Romenesko spotted this wonderful correction from AAA World magazine, which was posted in the feedback section of the AAA website: Many of you noticed a slight error in our July/August feature, Ghost Fields, where we suggested that President Lincoln delivered a speech in Philadelphia on June 16, 1964. The actual date of the president’s speech [...]
Two articles published on the 7th and 9th April 2010 concerned the discovery at Liverpool John Lennon Airport that Willi Jarant, aged 91, had died prior to check-in for a flight to Germany and the subsequent arrest of his widow, Gitta Jarant and step-daughter, Anke Anusic. The first article was headed “Women attempt to get [...]
ON May 16 we said that Tim Henman, right, would reportedly earn pounds 14,000 per day to commentate at Wimbledon this year. We have been informed that his fee will be substantially less. We apologise for our mistake and are happy to set the record straight. See this similar apology/correction from the Mail on Sunday. [...]
Articles on the death of Curt Willi Jarant suggested that two family members, Gitta Jarant and her daughter Anke Anusic, had attempted to smuggle Mr Jarant’s corpse on to a flight from Liverpool to Berlin, thereby apparently committing a criminal offence of failing to give notification of death. That allegation was untrue, as was the [...]
The man identified as Timothy Haynes in a photograph accompanying yesterday’s Telegraph story “Cuckold ‘humiliated love rival online’” was not in fact Mr Haynes. We apologise for any distress caused to the person photographed. The online version of the story does not include the apology. Report an error
The Hockey News deeply regrets and retracts the publication of its June 9, 2011 story entitled: “Source: Craig Leipold to acquire additional 40 percent of Minnesota Wild if minority owner Philip Falcone forced out.” The story appeared on thehockeynews.com. The story was erroneous concerning the proceedings of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and [...]
Guardian articles about Amina Abdallah Araf al Omari, a blogger on the subject of Middle East unrest, carried photographs purporting to show the blog’s author. In fact, the person pictured was Jelena Lecic, who lives in the UK. We apologise to her. An account of how these pictures came to be used appears in today’s [...]
