A “clarification” the Tribune’s “Guy Page” feature: On this page about two years ago, I declared the Travel Channel’s Samantha Brown to be the most beautiful woman on TV. That was part of my rebellion against all the plastic people whom pop culture would have us believe are beautiful. The one slight asterisk with Brown [...]
A correction to a blog post (“Things you might not know about Barack Obama”) on the Rocky Mountain News’ website: One of the items on this list has been removed because it mistakenly repeated a report that Barack Obama holds dual United States-Kenyan citizenship. This erroneous information was never reported in the Rocky Mountain News [...]
A map on Page 4A Tuesday mislabeled Armenia and Azerbaijan as Iraq and Iran. Link Report an error
A listing of credits on April 28, 1960, with a theater review of “West Side Story†on its return to the Winter Garden theater, misstated the surname of the actor who played Action. He is George Liker, not Johnson. (Mr. Liker, who hopes to audition for a role in a Broadway revival of the show [...]
An article on Sunday about Senator John McCain’s campaign management style described his role as a Navy pilot in Vietnam incorrectly. He flew bombing missions as an attack aircraft pilot, but he was not a “fighter pilot.†(The error has appeared in numerous other Times articles the past dozen years, most recently on April 9 [...]
Recidivist Guardian: despite previous corrections and/or stylebook warnings, we referred (page 11, August 1) to an accident on the road to the Sandbanks peninsular, instead of peninsula; we misspelled the former French president Mitterrand, calling him Mitterand (French politicians accused of assisting Rwandan genocide, page 15, August 6); Joint European Taurus (caption to picture with [...]
Due to an error by Rachel Kaufman, last week’s Young & Hungry column mentioned a free sandwich received by Clarence Webb “66 years ago,” when Webb was a rookie in the Alexandria Police Department. Webb, as reported, is 74 and was not 8 years old when he joined the police department; the sandwich in question [...]
AN ARTICLE published on July 20 stated that Chris Evert admitted in an interview to having an affair with Greg Norman while both were married to their previous partners, and the affair caused the demise of their marriages. That article was incorrect because Ms Evert did not make that admission. The Sunday Mail apologises to [...]
ON PAGE 3 of the May 10, 2008, edition, an article inaccurately stated that a professional tennis player, Paul Hanley, had been charged by London police with date rape. In fact Mr Hanley was never charged. After completing their inquiries into the allegation, about which Mr Hanley maintained there was no truth, the police decided [...]
In our 8 June article headlined “Western giants feel the force of the Alfa males†we reported a reference in the Indian press that Mikhail Fridman was being investigated by anti-money laundering agencies in Europe. We can confirm that we have no evidence of any such investigation, and apologise to Mr Fridman. We also reported [...]
A diagram on our Technology page claimed: “The US has more than twice as many wireless internet hotspots as any other country” (17 May, p 25). This was unfounded. The figures on which it was based were for hotspots registered with one commercial organisation, which isn’t going to get a free ad out of us. [...]
AN AUG. 3 article about the partnership of Jamie Masada and Richard Basciano in the Laugh Factory mistakenly reported that Basciano’s brother is the former Bonanno crime family boss known as “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano, who is serving a life sentence for murder. In fact, the two are not brothers. The News regrets the error. Report [...]
A photograph of Med Sled inventor Clifford Adkins on the front of Wednesday’s Business section showed a dummy being moved in one of the sleds. The photo’s caption incorrectly described the dummy as a patient. Link Report an error
Daniel at Philadelphia Weekly’s Philadelphia Will Do blog spotted this lovely typo on the front page of the Center City Weekly Press: An image of the page: As Daniel notes, this is the same paper that last year ran a Super Bowl preview featuring the teams from 2004′s game. Report an error
From Reuters: Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson has apologized after accidentally recommending a potentially deadly plant in organic salads. The chef and TV presenter said in a magazine article that the weed henbane, also known as stinking nightshade, made an excellent addition to summertime meals… Henbane, or Hyoscyamus niger, is toxic and can cause hallucinations, [...]
ON July 24, 2008, The Diary published an item about Jamie Durie alleging that his services with The Oprah Winfrey Show had been terminated as a result of certain behaviour on his part. The Diary acknowledges that the allegations were unfounded and that Harpo Productions Inc strongly denied the allegations and looks forward to continuing [...]
Jody Rosen, Slate’s music critic, has written a remarkable story about a weekly paper in Texas that appears to commit plagiarism on a shockingly regular basis. Rosen’s investigation into the Bulletin, a weekly in Montgomery County, Texas, began after he received an email informing him that his “… profile of musician Jimmy Buffett was reproduced [...]
In our account of an interview, conducted in English and in Japanese through a translator, with members of the Yellow Magic Orchestra (Back to the future, Film and Music, page 13, July 4), keyboardist Ryuichi Sakamoto was quoted in a way which may have implied that he found the presence of black people at a [...]
Friday’s Pruden on Politics column quoted a spokesman for the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv saying the newspaper had been encouraged by the Barack Obama campaign to publish a written prayer left by Mr. Obama in Jerusalem’s Wailing Wall and retrieved by an onlooker. A second Ma’ariv spokesman and the Obama campaign dispute the first Ma’ariv spokesman’s [...]
Our report on 23 April suggested that until the British tennis professional Robert Dee won a match in April this year, he had lost every previous professional match he had played, enduring a run of 54 consecutive defeats. We now accept that this was wrong as Mr Dee had won, and continues to win, many [...]
The news broke today that columnist Robert Novak, who recently revealed that he has a brain tumor, is retiring. Many news organizations are carrying a corrected version of an AP story. The early version of it suffered from a rather unfortunate omission in the second sentence of the last paragraph: AP apparently caught the error [...]
Contrary to a statement in a column yesterday (Since when did trying to have your photograph taken constitute a threat to national security?, page 5, G2) the Metropolitan police do not require professional photographers operating in central London to hold a police permit and wear a radio-linked ID tag. The material on which this part [...]
An article on June 29 about Hunter S. Thompson described incorrectly the context for a quotation by his widow, Anita Thompson, in which she said he was “surrounded by leeches and hanger-on-ers.†She was referring to the early 70s, around the time that Mr. Thompson covered the Ali-Frazier fight in Zaire; she did not mean [...]
A photograph of boarded-up shops in the Stratton area of Swindon, Wilts, (‘Credit crunch’, Business, 6 July) was actually taken eight years ago and gave a misleading impression of the district. The empty shops have since been torn down and the area redeveloped. Apologies. Link Report an error
A ForbesTraveler.com story published in February referred to the Web site beijingticketing.com as a ticket resource for travelers visiting Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics. The International Olympic Committee and the U.S. Olympic Committee have since filed a lawsuit against beijingticketing.com and other ticket-selling Web sites, claiming they were deceitful. In a statement, the USOC [...]
