Who can give blood? asked a Q&A – and summarised the answer as: Anyone who is fit and well and over the age of 17 – as long as they are not pregnant, do not weigh less than 50kg and have not had a tattoo or piercing, or had jaundice in the past six months. [...]
In an Oct. 27 story about jailed financier R. Allen Stanford's legal representation in his criminal case, The Associated Press reported that Stanford had written a letter in August accusing his attorney, Bob Bennett, of ethical misconduct. The story should have included that Stanford had also filed court documents after having written the August letter [...]
IN her letter published in the Echo last Friday, Mrs Marion Smith talked about the loss of her husband after 58 years of marriage and the importance of a supportive, loving family. She said “his life was hell and his death released him from it”. In preparing the letter for publication, we edited out the [...]
A Feb. 16 Page One article that dealt with the case of Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Sulaymon Barre quoted a hearing transcript in which an officer at the detention facility said he believed that Dahabshiil, a money-transfer company employing Barre, “was used to transfer money for terrorism.” The article pointed out that the allegations involving [...]
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 [...]
This year is the 400th anniversary of Quebec City. It’s a big deal for the city, and French magazine Paris-Match decided to dedicate a recent issue to the celebration. Unfortunately, its editors were under the impression that it was the province of Quebec’s 400th anniversary. Quebec City barely earned a mention in the issue. Folks [...]
An article in Wednesday’s editions about the Indiana primary election quoted a man who said he thought Sen. Barack was a Muslim. The article inadvertently failed to note that Mr. Obama is in fact a Christian. Link Report an error
An article in the Timelines section on March 31 (In The Herald: 1988), referred to a court case in 1988 involving a contempt of court summons against the then senior workers’ compensation commissioner Brian Muirhead. The article should have reported that the matter was eventually settled in Mr Muirhead’s favour. The Herald apologises to Mr [...]
A few misfires found their way into the September/October issue. In Terry A. Dalton’s piece on Mike Pride, an editor added a phrase asserting that Pride started his thirty-year career at the Concord Monitor on the sports desk. In fact, he started at the Monitor as the managing editor, and had been a sports writer [...]
Nov. 7–A headline on an A1 story in Tuesday’s Journal about Gov. Bill Richardson’s proposal for universal health care in New Mexico said, “Health Plan Excludes Immigrants.” It should have said the plan would exclude illegal immigrants. Report an error
On a Nov. 1 ESPN Radio SportsCenter Express report at 7:30 p.m. ET, a report saying Martina Hingis had tested positive for cocaine did not include her assertion that the test results were incorrect. This information was included in subsequent reports. Link Report an error
