As told by the Guardian’s amusing Media Monkey: The history of radio is littered with presenters announcing that people had died, when they hadn’t. Sometimes it’s accidental – Bob Geldof on a former incarnation of London’s Xfm sombrely intoned that Ian Dury had died, years before the veteran rocker actually passed away. Sometimes it’s for [...]
Stupid is as stupid does. And it was a pretty stupid one as I hit the send button on Wednesday night. The Oilers hardly spent a moment in Anaheim’s end of the rink for the first 30 minutes and the Honda Centre press box is so far from the ice you need binoculars to read [...]
I previously wrote about the U.K.’s Express Newspapers making prominent apologies to Kate and Gerry McCann. Now the papers have stepped up with another round of apologies, including this one from the Express: IN articles published between July and December last year we suggested that the holiday companions of Kate and Gerry McCann might have [...]
Respected French newspaper Le Monde yesterday took the extraordinary step of publishing a front page apology to President Nicolas Sarkozy, his current wife, and his ex-wife. Reports Agence France-Presse: Le Monde newspaper published a front-page apology today to ask for President Nicolas Sarkozy’s forgiveness after mixing up the names of his third wife, Carla Bruni, [...]
Monday’s review of the Village People at Seneca Niagara Casino stated that former member Victor Willis is deceased. Willis is still alive. Report an error
Some confusion arose in a review of a television drama about knife crime as a result of mishearing the term shanking, which means stabbing someone with a knife, as shagging (Last night’s TV, page 27, G2, October 2). Link Report an error
From the BBC: Some Israelis may have choked on their breakfast when a newspaper headline quoted France’s foreign minister saying Israel might devour its arch foe, Iran. Hebrew daily Haaretz splashed across its front page that Bernard Kouchner said Israel might “eat” the Islamic Republic before it got nuclear arms. The following day Haaretz apologised, [...]
St. THOMAS is a successful university in St. Paul. Its teams are the TOMMIES. They were named after THOMAS Aquinas. But the president of that fine institution is the Rev. Dennis Dease, and our calling him “Thomas” in Friday’s editorial was one Tommy too many. We confess our sin and apologize to Tommies everywhere. Link [...]
Editor’s note: A photo on Page C6 in Sunday’s Sports section showed Patriots rookie quarterback Kevin O’Connell wearing a wristband with inappropriate language written on it. The photo did not meet the Globe’s journalistic standards and should not have been published. Link View the image and read the wristband here. Report an error
Deep depression: Our economics editor has officially gone from recession to depression. By mangling the names of two of history’s most highly decorated economists, John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman, we not only created an economy of truth but blamed poor Milton Keynes for having “crazy” ideas (We can all learn from Depression, Opinion, page [...]
David Hoe was misidentified as a former sex worker in a Sept. 19 article in the Sun. The Sun regrets the error. Link Thanks, Fred and Pete! Report an error
A photo on Pg. 5 in the Friday edition identified fraud victim Richard Rand as the man guilty of 190 counts of fraud. The Sun apologizes to Mr. Rand for any embarrassment this may have caused. Link Report an error
In an item in Tuesday’s ‘Pandora’, ‘Strange but is it true? The mysterious boycott of Little Britain’, we quoted a New York radio presenter who said that he thought that the claimed West Hollywood Gay Lesbian Alliance protests about Little Britain’s series for the USA were most likely planted by someone’s publicist to generate publicity… [...]
A film review on Sept. 5 about “Save Me†confused some characters and actors. It is Mark, not Chad, who is sent to the Genesis House retreat for converting gay men to heterosexuality. (Mark is played by Chad Allen; there is no character named Chad). The hunky fellow resident is Scott (played by Robert Gant), [...]
On 22 October 2005, the New Zealand Herald published in its print edition and online an article titled “Dangerous Liaisions with Clients”. Some readers may have understood the article to have conveyed that Mr Defteros is a member of Melbourne’s criminal underworld and that he is unfit to be a solicitor. The New Zealand Herald [...]
An Aug. 9 essay on Jamaican runners in Weekend Journal that referred to Jamaican immigration to Canada in the 1960s incorrectly identified Canada as New Canada. Separately, an Aug. 16 Olympics article on Canada’s medal count incorrectly referred to the country as the Commonwealth of Canada. Link Report an error
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 [...]
A review Sunday of the book “Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World” contained several errors. Randy Mehrberg is not “an energy tycoon.” He is a spokesman for Exelon Corp., an energy firm, whose CEO, John Rowe, kept an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus in his office; it was Rowe who donated the [...]
From the June 13 issue of Private Eye magazine: Our item about Slough in the last issue said the leader of the Tory group on the council was Cllr Diana Coad. In fact that honour currently falls to one Derek Cryer. “Lady” Diana, who is also the party’s parliamentary candidate for the town, merely behaves [...]
The 75th anniversary issue of Esquire currently on newsstands includes a corrections-as-humor contribution by Buddy Kite: An article in the December 1983 Golden Anniversary Collector’s Issue-”50 Who Made the Difference: A Celebration of Fifty American Originals”-imprecisely described Dr. Benjamin Spock. Further reporting revealed that Dr. Spock had no idea what he was talking about and [...]
An editing error in a previous version of this article gave the incorrect impression that Harry Truman and other high-powered politicians didn’t want blacks flying warplanes. The original article also incorrectly stated that after retiring from the military, Lt. Col. LeRoy Roberts Jr. worked for 20 years as a federal employee for the Government Services [...]
Gawker spotted this push-button publishing mistake at the Wall Street Journal: Gawker explains: In an email to subscribers this afternoon, the Wall Street Journal included one of its signature market-moving stock market columns, published at 5:04 p.m. Wait, but they usually embargo “Heard On The Street” until morning! Well, it’s pretty clear from the headline, [...]
Just over two weeks after it moved an unfortunate report about Robert Novak’s retirement, AP has delivered another notable typo. In a story about Obama’s plans for a vice presidential pick, AP noted that McCain was considering Sen. Joe Lieberman, “the Democratic vice presidential prick in 2000 who now is an independent.” (Emphasis added.) Oh [...]
In yesterday’s column about badminton, I misspelled the name of Guatemalan player Kevin Cordon. I apologize. In my defense, I want to note that in the same column I correctly spelled Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarak, Poompat Sapkulchananart and Porntip Buranapraseatsuk. So by the time I got to Kevin Cordon, my fingers were exhausted. Link (correction at bottom) [...]
AN article on March 29, “Everyone off my bus, I need to pray”, stated that Arunas Raulynaitis, a London bus driver and a Muslim, asked passengers to leave his bus so he could pray and that passengers later refused to re-board the bus because they saw a ruck-sack which made them think he might be [...]
