IN court yesterday the Daily Star apologised to Garry Tweedy for an article published on April 13 in which we incorrectly reported that Mr Tweedy had admitted on his Facebook profile that he had been to prison a few times. We accepted that Mr Tweedy did not post this comment, nor has he ever been [...]
IN our article “bullied to death for being pretty”, published on September 30, 2011, we stated that Poppy Bracey hanged herself because she was being bullied. In fact, no evidence of bullying was put before the coroner at the inquest and a verdict of accidental death was recorded. We apologise for our mistake. Link Report [...]
On Monday, 26 September, we published an article which claimed that Katie Price was involving her son, Junior, in violent pursuits and that this was of deep concern to her ex-husband, Peter Andre. In fact our story was incorrect and Katie has simply taken Junior to a noncontact fun fitness class designed by MMA trainer [...]
While the world is focused on the actions of the now-defunct News of the World (and possibly other British tabloids), on Friday eight British newspapers issued apologies for outrageous, prominent and defamatory front pages and articles that falsely painted Christopher Jefferies as a murderer. The Tabloid Watch blog has an excellent overview of the issue [...]
This site was inaccessible for much of last week due to it being temporarily listed as an attack site by Google. As a result, I missed blogging about a few notable items: A Bad Byline From a report on WQAD.com: The Western Courier is an award-winning newspaper at Western Illinois University that takes pride in [...]
ON 16th December 2010 we published an article on our front page and pages 4 and 5, making a suggestion that immediately after Amir Khan's successful WBA world champion fight against Marcos Maidana in Las Vegas on 11th December 2010, Amir Khan was joined by Katie Price for dinner and subsequently in his suite. At [...]
I have been asked by several emailers and callers, including two radio producers, to provide evidence about my claim that Express Newspapers EN has paid out more in libel damages in recent times than any other newspaper group. So I set out yesterday to research EN’s extraordinarily dismal libel record over the past three years. [...]
IN The Goss column on May 25 we published an article "Fan saves Amy Winehouse from Russell Brand's Dad" in which it was stated that Ron Brand had made unwelcome and inappropriate advances to Amy Winehouse, as a result of which a fan had to intervene and slap him. On May 28, we repeated the [...]
Emphasis mine: ON 21 July we published an article claiming that the video games company Rockstar Games were planning to release a version of their popular Grand Theft Auto video games series titled “Grand Theft Auto Rothburyâ€. We also published what we claimed would be the cover of this game, solicited comments from a family [...]
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 [...]
In the Daily Star of 27 October 2008, we published an article and photographs of Olga Kurylenko which stated that Ms Kurylenko had arranged a nude photoshoot immediately after the filming of Quantum Of Solace. We now accept that Ms Kurylenko did not arrange any such photoshoot after Quantum Of Solace and that this was [...]
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 [...]
OUR February 21 report of the BRIT Awards headed “Ozzy’s Freak Show” reported that Ozzy Osbourne had thrown the BRIT Awards into chaos after he suffered a health scare, toppling over twice, just before the Awards ceremony. We claimed that BRITS bosses held emergency talks about whether to send the Prince of Darkness to hospital [...]
Roy Greenslade of The Guardian thinks so, and he made a three-part argument earlier today: Case one: yesterday it apologised in the high court to the Italian footballer Marco Materazzi who was infamously headbutted in the chest by Zinedine Zidane in the 2006 world cup final. The paper falsely claimed that the attack was prompted [...]
Today was a historic day for newspaper apologies. A sad, shameful, embarrassingly historic day. Two UK papers controlled by the same owner (Express Newspapers) issued front page apologies to a British couple, Kate and Gerry McCann. The apologies will be repeated in the related Sunday editions of both papers, the Sunday Express and Daily Star [...]
OUR article last Tuesday headed “It’s Sven Giggle Eriksson” pictured Mr Eriksson in a hotel restaurant with a young lady. We wrongly assumed that the lady was an admirer and suggested that he was fondling her. In fact the lady was Lina, Mr Eriksson’s daughter, with whom he was having a normal fatherly embrace. We [...]
Last week the Associated Press ran with a story about Paris Hilton raising awareness about the plight of drunken elephants. Though many, including the AP, are willing to believe anything when it comes to Paris Hilton, this particular tale was completely false. (Our previous post with the original story and correction is here.) AP had [...]
IN our article “He made my hair fall out” on 13 October, 2006, reporting the divorce of Dan Hipgrave and Gail Porter, we said that Mr Hipgrave’s unreasonable behaviour during the marriage had caused Miss Porter’s stress-related alopecia and had made hair fall out. We would like to make it clear that Mr Hipgrave’s behaviour [...]
