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Apology

May 15, 2008 – 8:00 am

AN article headlined “Natalie lifts the lid on dangers of Mr Wrong” published in Sydney Confidential on 7 April, 2008, reported that Mr Cameron Lamb tricked Ms Natalie Michael into getting married in Las Vegas. The Daily Telegraph accepts that this allegation is false and apologises to Mr Lamb for any hurt or embarrassment caused [...]

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Apology

May 13, 2008 – 8:00 am

THE Chronicle unreservedly apologises for any offence caused as a result of the story titled ”From Russia with love” in last week’s Entertainer section. The headline on the story about the Kiev Ballet was a sub-editor’s error.

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They’re an acquired taste

May 13, 2008 – 8:00 am

Poland’s delicje are biscuits with chocolate and jam. Thursday’s Letter From the City column incorrectly said chocolate and ham. Link

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Guardian earns an “F” in its Science Course

May 13, 2008 – 8:00 am

We misspelled a number of elements in the periodic table printed in part VI of the Science Course supplement distributed with the paper on May 1. We meant Iron (not Irone); Praseodymium (not Praseodynium); Neodymium (not Neodynium); Neptunium (not Neptuniam); Americium (not Americum); Seaborgium (not Seoborgium); and Darmstadtium (not Darmstadium). Link
And:
In part V of the [...]

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LA Times turns man gay

May 12, 2008 – 8:00 am

Adult orphans: An article in Monday’s Health section that was part of a package on how people handle their parents’ deaths focused on Larry Graber, a Santa Monica psychotherapist whose parents died within six months of each other in 2000. Although the article said Graber is an openly gay man, Graber is heterosexual. The reporter [...]

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NY Times makes Miley Cyrus go topless

April 30, 2008 – 8:00 am

A headline and an article on Monday about a Vanity Fair photograph showing the actress Miley Cyrus in a suggestive pose left the incorrect impression that she was bare-breasted. While the pose was indeed revealing, she was wrapped in what appeared to be a bedsheet; she was not topless. Link

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Apology

April 28, 2008 – 8:00 am

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 [...]

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Makes sense

April 22, 2008 – 8:00 am

We said that, in the American TV drama 24, Jack Bauer, the counter-terrorism agent, resorted to electrocution to extract information. You cannot extract information from someone who has been electrocuted because they are dead (Questioning, the Jack Bauer way, page 1, April 19). Link

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Columbia Spectator retracts article that claimed a Dalai Lama had AIDS

April 18, 2008 – 12:48 pm

Gawker spotted this incredible error/correction in the Columbia Spectator, a student newspaper:

The paper subsequently retracted the piece. This text has replaced the article on the Spectator’s website:
Because this piece was based on unreliable sources we have decided to retract the article and remove it from the Web site. We appreciate all the letters we have [...]

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A beauty of a misquote

April 16, 2008 – 8:00 am

In a report on page 3 of The Australian on April 10, “Girl from the Gong to take on the world”, it was stated that a contestant at the Miss World Australia beauty pageant had said she “believed in injustice and inequality”. This was incorrect. The contestant said: “I believe in justice, equality and integrity.” [...]

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Apology

April 14, 2008 – 8:00 am

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 [...]

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So who was in the photo?

April 8, 2008 – 8:00 am

A caption mistakenly identified Linda Crossley-Hauch as the woman in a photograph published with a story Saturday about school bullying. The Free Press regrets the error.

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