The picture above right illustrated a front page story about the death of the Nazi war criminal, Samuel Kunz, on 23 November. We have since been told that the image is not, in fact, that of Samuel Kunz, but the Croatian actor Ljubomir Jurkovic. We are happy to make the position clear and apologise to [...]
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 includes a new introduction. Error of the [...]
Owing to an editing error, we said that Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall slept with more than 1,000 women in a three-year period during the mid-80s. That was meant to be more than 1,000 a year, based on his estimate of an average of three such encounters a day, as stated elsewhere in our stories [...]
In Wednesday’s column, I accosted Kyrgyzstan for boiling its prisoners and the British government for turning a blind eye to the evidence. I meant Uzbekistan. But I am reluctant to apologize, since Kyrgyz prisoners were regularly beaten to death or unaccountably hanged themselves during interrogation. Link Thanks, @PhilMoscovitch! Report an error
In our November 24 article "Meredith Maran's New Look at Recovered Memories," we misquoted the author and erroneously made it appear as if she had multiple lovers during the period in the mid-1980s that is discussed in the story. We also misstated the publication date of her new book, My Lie: A True Story of [...]
An article on Page 4 of Wednesday's Local section about an IRS inquiry into the Miccosukee Tribe's gambling profits was accompanied by an incorrect photograph of former Miccosukee tribal chairman Billy Cypress. The incorrect photograph depicted the late Billy L. Cypress of the Seminole Tribe, who founded the museum that holds the largest collection of [...]
IN yesterday's edition of The Cairns Post, it was wrongly reported that Mr Bob Harris was flying with another man in a four-seat Cessna 172 when it crashed about 20kms southwest of Mt Coleridge, near Innisfail. Mr Harris was not flying in the plane which crashed. Mr Harris' flight school business and Hinchinbrook Air Services [...]
A report by the BBC World Service's show Assignment wrongly stated that "millions of pounds raised by Band Aid was used to buy arms." The BBC's Editorial Complaints Unit has now weighed in, stating plainly that there was no evidence to support the reporting. Here's how the BBC itself reported on the apology, which was [...]
Josh Groban: An article about singer Josh Groban in the Oct. 31 Arts & Books section said that songwriter Dan Wilson collaborated on the Dixie Chicks album "Not Ready to Make Nice." The name of the album was "Taking the Long Way." Also, the article misspelled the word "click" as "clique" in one of Groban's [...]
TOWNSVILLE City Council chief executive Ray Burton was quoted in Saturday's edition saying the role of a new strategic policy advisor had been created "to deal with some of the issues your paper (the Townsville Bulletin) has created". This was wrong. Mr Burton said the position had been created "to deal with some of the [...]
YESTERDAY, a news.com.au article incorrectly stated that the Star Trek starship USS Enterprise-E, otherwise known as model NNC-1701-E, was the successor to Captain Kirk's original USS Enterprise. It has since been brought to our attention that the NNC-1701-E in fact came two models after Captain Kirk retired and was under the command of Captain Jean [...]
The Butte County District Attorney's Office clarified that Oroville mini-storage stabbing suspect Zachary James Ragan does not have a horn tattooed on his forehead. Rather, he has devil horns tattooed on the sides of his forehead. Link Thanks, Devanie! Report an error
The New York Times reports that Theodore C. Sorensen, "a close adviser and counselor to John F. Kennedy for 11 years," died today at the age of 82. But the paper's otherwise interesting and comprehensive obit omits one noteworthy detail. Sorensen is famous for his work with Kennedy, but he also earned a legendary place [...]
The Tuesday edition of the Metro paper in Boston played up a recent Daily Beast survey that ranked the intelligence of different U.S. cities: Actually. Boston was ranked first overall. The paper tucked a small correction at the bottom of page two in yesterday's paper: But shouldn't a big front page error like that be [...]
In a story Oct. 15 about a mistake in Chicago's electronic voting machines, The Associated Press erroneously reported the way a gubernatorial candidate's name appears on a ballot review touch-screen. The screen lists the candidate as "R. Whitey," not "Rich Whitey" as the AP reported. The candidate is Rich Whitney of Illinois' Green Party. Chicago [...]
Bell councilman: In the Oct. 13 Section A, a profile of Lorenzo Velez, the only Bell City Council member not charged with a crime, described Bell as "a city dominated by blue-color Mexican immigrants like himself." It should have said "blue-collar." Link Report an error
It’s a rare and wonderful thing to see a news organization criticized for making too big of a deal about an error and correction made by one of its writers. The issue is usually the opposite—a call for transparency, rather than a plea to, well, shut up. But here we are, thanks to a now-famous [...]
This blog post originally stated that one in three black men who have sex with me is HIV positive. In fact, the statistic applies to black men who have sex with men. Link Thanks, Greg! Update Oct. 12, 2010: This correction is attracting a lot of attention. From a post by the folks at TBD: [...]
LAST Thursday, Sowetan published an article with the headline "More exam boycotts", in which we reported that a march by Cosas in Limpopo took place in the Waterberg area. The article claimed that Cosas members had allegedly gone to schools and forced pupils out of examination rooms. The article also erroneously reported that: l A [...]
The late Charles Bukowski was described as "the drunken Polish postie-turned-poet". He was an American of German origin (House of Hopper, 5 October, page 11, G2). Link Report an error
The Press Gazette's Axegringer discovered an unfortunate photo choice made by a U.K. news website. From Axegrinder: The Iliffe News and Media-owned Cambridge News website opted for a curious choice of photo to illustrate a story about a woman who was subjected to verbal abuse on a train by thuggish Cardiff City football club fans.The [...]
A piece of correspondence on the letters page expressed the view that an attempt by Jewish activists on a sailing boat to break the sea blockade around Gaza this week had been important in "reasserting the Jewish tradition of standing up for the victims of injustice" (30 September, page 35). But due to an editing [...]
An article on Wednesday about the quarrels among President Obama’s national security advisers described in a new book by Bob Woodward referred incompletely to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s reported assessment of Richard C. Holbrooke, the president’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. While Mr. Biden is indeed quoted as calling Mr. Holbrooke “the [...]
When we said that an issue "exorcised a number of black people in the (theatre) audience" what we meant was exercised. An area "now ridden by social deprivation" should have been riven (The joke's not funny if only wealthy white people laugh, 18 September, page 30). Link Reminds me of this classic. Report an error
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