While you’re here, please consider purchasing a copy of the Regret the Error book, which won an award for media criticism from the National Press Club, and also contains hundreds of hilarious corrections. You can learn more about the book and read some reviews here. The paperback edition, which includes a new introduction, came out [...]
The Inquirer yesterday erred in publishing a photograph that accompanied a story on Judge Paul W. Tressler of Montgomery County Court. The photograph was not of the judge, shown at left, but of Howard Nevison, a sex offender sentenced by Tressler in 2006. The Inquirer regrets the error and apologizes. Link Thanks, David! Report an [...]
At a memorial gathering for Bruce Wasserstein, New York magazine editor Adam Moss described Mr. Wasserstein as having the “soul of a journalist and the wallet of a tycoon.” A Tuesday Deals & Deal Makers article about the memorial incorrectly quoted Mr. Moss as saying Mr. Wasserstein had “the heart of a tycoon.” Link Report [...]
This column was amended from its original, which incorrectly reported that former Superior Court Judge Herbert Hoffman is ill, which was attributed to his wife. In fact, Hoffman is active as a private mediator, and his wife is deceased. The Union-Tribune regrets the error. Link Thanks, Randy! This correction was initially spotted by Rob Davis [...]
This week the Peterborough Examiner in Ontario, Canada published this apology: Sometimes in life there is no other, or even better, word than sorry. In Monday’s paper a photograph was published that shouldn’t have appeared as it did and we are sorry. It certainly was not published intentionally. Some of our web readers did notice [...]
An interview piece – Keep chic and carry on, 5 December, page 28 – said that Alexandra Shulman divorced the writer Paul Spike when she was 40. Rather, that was when they separated, divorcing some years later. And the article should have said that she and her current partner got together on “a weekend” some [...]
A story in Tuesday’s Local & State section about alleged moonshine sales at a day care center gave incorrect information about Gwendolyn Brown-Johnson, who was accused of selling moonshine. She has no prior N.C. criminal history or arrests. Link Report an error
As noted by its Good, Bad, and Ugly blog, Reuters had an unfortunate boy/buoy typo in a recent story. The incorrect text made it onto many websites, including the New York Times (note the last graf): The corrected version of the story was sent with this correction: Corrects reference in paragraph six to read “buoy” [...]
In the Dec. 8 Broadsheet post “‘Curing’ Gays Turns to Killing,” Richard Cohen, author of “Coming Out Straight: Understanding and Healing Homosexuality,” was incorrectly referred to as a Washington Post columnist. There is a newspaper columnist of the same name, but he is a different person. Link Report an error
The story headlined “HIV screening kicks off on theatrical note” on page A4 on Wednesday wrongly stated that only 56 people in Hong Kong had developed Aids since 1984. There have been 1,086 cases. Report an error
A Nov. 26 article in the District edition of Local Living incorrectly said a Public Enemy song declared 9/11 a joke. The song refers to 911, the emergency phone number. Link Report an error
Canwest News Service described Helmut Oberlander as a “Nazi collaborator” in a story about a Nov. 18 court ruling that ordered the federal Cabinet to reconsider revoking his citizenship. Neither the Canadian government nor the Federal Court has stated that Oberlander was a collaborator. A judge ruled in 2000 that Oberlander worked, lived, and travelled [...]
The Daily Show recently busted Sean Hannity for using misleading footage during a report about Rep. Michele Bachmann’s tea party rally at the Capitol. (See updated information at the bottom of this post.) Hannity subsequently apologized on air: Then, last week, Fox News had to apologize again for doing the same thing. This time it [...]
We have been asked to make clear that Edgar Wright’s appreciation of Edward Woodward, which appeared in the paper on Tuesday, November 17, was abridged and the full version can be read at www.edgarwrighthere.com/2009/11/edward-woodward-1930-2009/ Link Actually, the paper was asked to acknowledge the fact that it took Wright’s blog post and published an excerpt of [...]
The evening newscast of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation last night ran an image of the wrong Going Rogue Sarah Palin book. The book written by Sarah Palin is titled, Going Rogue: An American Life. Another book, written by two staffers at the Nation, is called, Going Rouge: Sarah Palin An American Nightmare. (Update Nov. 23: [...]
ON 18 September 2009, we published an article in which Warren Furman, also known as the Gladiator “Ace”, was reported as denying “internet rumours” that he had raped Jordan. In doing so, the article implied that these “rumours” were sufficiently serious to require a response from Mr Furman. In fact the “internet rumours” consisted of [...]
ON 17 July 2008 in our front page article “Ron the Lash” we falsely reported that whilst recovering from an operation to his ankle Cristiano Ronaldo had “gone on a bender” at a Hollywood nightclub where he splashed out pounds 10,000 on champagne and vodka and threw his crutches to the ground and tried to [...]
On November 5 we translated the name of Ed and Nancy Kienholz’s artwork at the National Gallery, The Hoerengracht, as ‘Gentlemen’s Canal’. This should have read ‘Whore’s Canal’. We apologise for the error. Report an error
Steven Pearlstein’s column in the Nov. 6 Economy & Business pages incorrectly referred to “uncomfortably high employment.” It should have read “uncomfortably high unemployment.” Link Report an error
In a story on Page 3-A of Wednesday’s Independent about the Big Brothers Big Sisters’ Trail of Terror haunted house, a reaction to strobe lights should have included the word “freaking.†The word was replaced with asterisks, perhaps causing confusion about what was actually said. The Independent apologizes for this confusion and the impression it [...]
On 29 March and 1 April last year we reported that Mr Patel was an evil terrorist who had been jailed for his part in a transatlantic jet terror plot. While he had been convicted under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act of possessing material that might be useful to terrorists, the court accepted that [...]
Bear sighting: An item in the National Briefing in Sunday’s Section A said a bear wandered into a grocery story in Hayward, Wis., on Friday and headed for the beer cooler. It was Thursday. Link Report an error
An article on Page 4 this weekend about Sienna Miller misstates the nature of the relationships that she had with Heath Ledger and Sean Combs. She was friends with both of them; she did not have romantic flings with them. Link Report an error
A reply to a question in Notes & Queries yesterday recommended purchasing lion and tiger urine from Chester Zoo to stop neighbourhood cats from urinating in a vegetable patch (G2, page 17). Chester Zoo would like to forestall requests for its big cats’ urine: it asks us to make clear that it does not in [...]
Blogger Fred Witzell wrote to Hurst Mayor Richard Ward that his membership in Mayors Against Illegal Guns was a disgrace. After that, Ward responded that Witzell was “dumb” and “ugly.” Witzell then responded that Ward was an “idiot” mayor. The sequence of events was incorrect Thursday in an article. Link Report an error
