Regret the Error » canberra times

Immortality, not immorality

Craig Silverman — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:00:00 +0000

The article “Game on in Dickson’s twilight zone” (June 23, p4) incorrectly reported the 2011 Canberra Roleplaying and Games Festival Triptych theme as “immorality.”
The theme was “immortality”.

How dare you diss our apples and pears

Craig Silverman — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:00:58 +0000

CLARIFICATIONS In Wednesday’s Page 3 report on the apple industry, Pam Hauptmann was quoted as saying New Zealand had some of the worst apples and pears in the world. She was referring to the disease fire blight, as being one of the worst diseases in the world for the pear and apple industry, not to the quality of New Zealand apples.

Did they purposefully omit a reference to pears at the end?

Fuzzy numbers etc.

Craig Silverman — Mon, 09 May 2011 12:00:08 +0000

CORRECTION Wednesday’s ACT budget coverage should have said the Government is saving $174,000, not $174million, by cancelling plans for a secure mental health facility. This was a reporter’s error.

Apology

Craig Silverman — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:00:38 +0000

A photograph on page three of yesterday’s Canberra Times was incorrectly captioned. The caption said the two people pictured above were supporters of a man accused of murder. They were, in fact, associated with the alleged victim, Brendan Scott Welsh, and included his fiancee, at left. The Canberra Times apologises for the error.

A sober correction

Craig Silverman — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:00:24 +0000

Canberra Raiders Shaun Fensom and James Stuart were not among the Souths Logan players disciplined for an unauthorised drinking session at the Magpies’ clubhouse earlier this month, as was reported in The Canberra Times yesterday.
Neither Fensom nor Stuart was on the club’s premises following the team’s preliminary final loss on September 5.
This was a reporter’s error.

Apology

Craig Silverman — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:00:24 +0000

Dr Maxine Cooper On August 12, we published a feature article by Rosslyn Beeby which suggested that Dr Cooper, the ACT Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment, had breached her obligations as an independent statutory officer to “operate as a politically independent watchdog”.
No attempt was made to check our allegations with Dr Cooper before publication. The Canberra Times accepts that Dr Cooper has acted with integrity and is not politically aligned. The Canberra Times accepts that Dr Cooper neither enacted nor was responsible for the destruction of the East O’Malley woodlands; a bungled control burn; and the Gungahlin Drive extension. We acknowledge that the conclusions based on these untrue claims were unfair. Rosslyn Beeby and The Canberra Times apologise to Dr Cooper.

Apology

Craig Silverman — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:00:40 +0000

A Canberra Times report published on October 22 in part referred to evidence that the Australian Electoral Commission’s chief legal officer, Paul Pirani, gave to a Senate estimates committee on the previous day. Contrary to what was incorrectly reported in the article, Mr Pirani clearly indicated to the committee that the Commonwealth Electoral Act did not apply to the issue of ACT Labor advertisements placed in The Canberra Times before the recent ACT Legislative Assembly election and that the matter did not fall in the jurisdiction of the Australian Electoral Commission.
The Canberra Times apologises to Mr Pirani for any negative inference concerning his personal and professional conduct as the commission’s chief legal officer or that he acted either unlawfully or unprofessionally in the evidence he gave to the committee.

Apology

Craig Silverman — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:00:52 +0000

An opinion article published in The Canberra Times by Irfan Yusuf on August 18, ”Justice the remedy required to help Bosnia heal”, cited the US analyst Daniel Pipes as predicting that Europe’s next Holocaust victims would be Muslim migrants and it alleged that Mr Pipes suggested Muslims thoroughly deserved such slaughter.
The Canberra Times and Irfan Yusuf accept that Mr Pipes never predicted nor has he ever endorsed a Holocaust of European Muslims, and they unreservedly apologise to him for the errors.

Apology

Craig Silverman — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:00:11 +0000

On August 9, 2007, The Canberra Times reported on the judgment in the defamation case brought by film-maker Dennis O’Rourke against the proponent of indigenous rights Stephen Hagan and the publisher of The Daily Telegraph.
Mr Hagan has complained that the article suggested he misused public money dedicated to Aboriginal legal aid. The Canberra Times withdraws any such suggestion and apologises to Mr Hagan for the hurt and embarrassment caused.

Fuzzy numbers etc.

Craig Silverman — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:00:28 +0000

A report yesterday about petrol prices rising to $8 a litre within 10 years incorrectly stated that freight costs could add 3c to the average price of a loaf of bread. The correct figure is 31c. This was a sub- editor’s error.

Know your bombers

Craig Silverman — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:00:17 +0000

A photograph published yesterday of Bali bomber Imam Samudra was wrongly identified as another of the bombers, Amrozi Nurhasyim.
This was a sub-editor’s error.

Building a misconception

Craig Silverman — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:00:20 +0000

A report in the Sunday Canberra Times referred to the “Blades-John Hanna Menswear building”. In fact, John Hanna and Blades do not occupy the same building and John Hanna is not associated with Blades in any way.

Apology

Craig Silverman — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:00:03 +0000

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 time did GSA or Mr Turnbull advise FAI Insurance on any privatisation proposal, and similarly accepts that at no time did GSA or Mr Turnbull ever advise HIH Insurance on its takeover of FAI. We recognise that, while GSA and Mr Turnbull advised FAI on the HIH takeover, at no time did GSA have any obligations towards HIH. Further,we concede that the assertion that GSA and Mr Turnbull ”concealed the true position of FAI” from HIH is incorrect. Any inference that GSA or Mr Turnbull acted in anything other than a professional manner was not intended, and The Canberra Times unequivocally apologises to them both.

Doped by the press

Craig Silverman — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:00:31 +0000

A front-page pointer in yesterday’s Canberra Times said ACT cyclist Michael Rogers was named in new doping allegations. Anti-doping expert Professor Werner Franke told German radio earlier this week the entire T-Mobile team, which included Rogers, had resorted to blood transfusions.
Professor Franke did not name Rogers individually. Rogers has denied ever being involved with performance-enhancing drugs or blood doping.

A “glimpse of leg” that was too much for readers

Craig Silverman — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:00:00 +0000

An Editor’s Note:

Yesterday’s front page picture of Maxine McKew has stirred considerable controversy. It was certainly not our intention to offend Ms McKew or our readers. The picture was chosen because the expressions on the faces of Ms McKew and John Howard captured perfectly the historic moment of the victor meeting the vanquished in Bennelong. It was the best such picture available to us. In small detail, the image showed a glimpse of leg up Ms McKew’s skirt. Nothing more. We regret that this has caused offence to some readers. The Canberra Times is not in the business of sensationalism.
Mark Baker, Editor

UPDATE: I’m grateful to loyal reader Steve for offering a link to where you can see the photo for yourself. (Click on the link at the top of the page.)