San Diego CityBeat spotted this unique and somewhat confusing correction to a press release from the San Diego Democratic Club: Our recent [today] press release mistakenly quoted Eric Banks of SEIU Local 221 as saying “while Lorena may consider herself a woman in the body of a gay man, I am the only openly gay [...]
An essay on Page 11 this weekend, about how the media reports on itself, refers incorrectly to a reporter who live-blogged a radio show on which the writer, Bill Keller, appeared. The reporter, Zeke Turner, is a man. Link *Correction March 14, 2011: This headline originally and incorrectly referred to the "NT Times Magazine" instead [...]
A report in The Caucus column on Friday about polling in the midterm elections referred incorrectly to the Democratic nominee for governor of Florida. The candidate, Alex Sink, is a woman. Link Report an error
A cutline in Saturday’s Spectator incorrectly identified Jes-Lynn Chaplin’s new baby as a boy. Baby Harlow, Hamilton’s first baby of the new year, is a girl. The Spectator apologizes for the error. Link Report an error
We said, “[I]n Paris, two Muslim girls were harassed by a Jewish gang.” In fact, the two Muslim students were boys. Link Report an error
From a column by Laura Vozzella in the Baltimore Sun: From the misplaced obsessive attention to detail file: In writing about Fred Bealefeld‘s missing dog Wednesday, I double-checked Scooby‘s gender (male) but somehow assumed the police chief’s two “kids” were boys. The commish has one boy and one girl. The Baltimore Sun, and this columnist [...]
Correction: Because of a reporting error, the gender of Michael and Orla Murphy-LaScola’s baby was misidentified in yesterday’s Names column. Roan Tamas LaScola is a girl. Link Report an error
Vice-regal vicissitude: Last June we showed a lack of excellence by changing Australia’s first female Governor-General Quentin Bryceinto a man, calling her Mr Bryce. Now we’ve also managed to change the sex of Canada’s Governor-General, Michaelle Jean. Her Excellency Mme Jean is a she, not a he as we published in late editions of the [...]
Because of an editing error, an article on Monday about the failure of France’s opposition Socialists to pick a new leader at their party congress over the weekend referred incorrectly to one of the three candidates, who is best known as the architect of the 35-hour workweek. The candidate, Martine Aubry, is a woman. Link [...]
Mayor nightmare: An assumption by a reporter changed the gender of the Mayor of Gosnells (Suburban graffiti costs millions, page 19, October 13). As there is no doubt Olwen Searle believes graffiti vandals should be jailed, so there is no doubt she is a woman. Report an error
An article on Friday about calls for an overhaul of the global financial system by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France referred incorrectly to the head of the French business lobby Medef. Laurence Parisot is a woman. Link Report an error
A chart last Monday with an article about the Senate race in New Hampshire referred incorrectly, in some editions, to the incumbent Republican who Democrats hope can be defeated by Jeanne Shaheen. As an accompanying picture showed, the New Hampshire senator, John E. Sununu, is a man. Link Thanks, Jeff! Report an error
Our apologies to Yianna Lambrou of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization for referring to her as “he”. Link Report an error
A story on Page 24 of Saturday’s Main News section misidentified Frances Iglehart as a reverend and as a man. Also, the church is no longer used by the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation or Korean or Latino congregations. Link Report an error
The president of Latvia, Valdis Zatlers, is a man. A graphic on Page A2 Tuesday incorrectly identified him as female. Link Report an error
