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BBC uses image from 2004 tsunami in report about recent cyclone

May 19, 2008 – 8:00 am

From the BBC’s Editors blog:
Last night the BBC broadcast a still which we said showed dozens of bodies lying in the waterfront of the Irrawaddy delta. We have since discovered that the picture was actually taken in Aceh, Sumatra following the tsunami of 2004. This was a mistake, and we will be correcting it on [...]

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BBC Newsnight makes markets move — even when they’re closed

November 26, 2007 – 8:00 am

From a post on BBC’s The Editors blog:
…On Thursday we reported that in New York the “Dow Jones was substantially down amidst more credit crunch fears”. That’s odd, many of you told us, as - being Thanksgiving - Wall Street’s finest were on a day-off. Our economics editor Stephanie Flanders was mortified - “unforgivable and [...]

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The Morien Jones apologies, continued

September 15, 2006 – 8:01 am

We’ve been cataloging the apologies offered to Morien Jones by UK newspapers (read one of the apologies for some background), and now there are a few more to add to the pile. Actually, a lot more. We can’t recall another recent UK story that caused so many apologies. Read the previous apology from the Yorkshire [...]

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UPDATED: BBC mistakes man for tech expert, puts him on TV

May 16, 2006 – 8:00 am

EDITOR’S NOTE: This post had been updated/corrected with new information. Due to technical difficulties at Regret, this information was added later than we would have liked. We apologize for the delay.
A UK taxi driver man at the BBC for a job interview found himself being interviewed live in a BBC TV studio recently, after [...]

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BBC hoaxed

December 6, 2004 – 10:58 am

BBC TV and Radio fell victim to a hoaxer last week. A man who said his name was Jude Finisterra and claimed to be a spokesman for Dow Chemical went on the air at the Beeb and said Dow was taking full responsibility for the 1984 Bhopal disaster, and had set up a $12 billion [...]

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