Rural reality TV: In the Dec. 1 Calendar section, an article about reality TV series focusing on rural areas referred to the shows “American Hoggers” and “Lady Hoggers” as “American Joggers” and “Lady Joggers.” Link Report an error
Oregon death penalty: An article in the Nov. 23 Section A about Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber’s declaration on the death penalty said that his decision canceled the scheduled Dec. 6 execution of Gary Haugen and came a day after the Oregon Supreme Court had cleared the way for Haugen’s death by legal injection. It should [...]
The Los Angeles Times has been hearing complaints from readers about typos and grammatical errors. The feedback was mentioned in this piece. Just about every newspaper these days gets complaints of that nature, and it’s good that readers speak up. But what’s notable about the Times story is the information offered up in response by [...]
Pet cemetery: A caption that accompanied an Aug. 1 article in Section A about pet owners picking cheaper services for deceased pets said the dog Skippy, who is buried at Pet Haven Cemetery & Crematory in Gardena, played television’s Lassie. In fact, Skippy was an Army K-9 Corps dog. Link Report an error
Tom Wolfe: A July 10 article about an exhibition of author Tom Wolfe’s illustrations referred to one of his books as “The Painted Bird.” The correct title is “The Painted Word.” Link And: Mexican actors: A July 10 article about Mexican actors working in Hollywood translated the film title “No Eres Tu, Soy Yo” as [...]
Chinese film: An article in the July 14 Calendar section about the movie “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” said director Wayne Wang believes a number of recent Chinese blockbusters have failed to connect with American audiences because the storytelling isn’t ambitious. In fact, he described the storytelling as confusing. Link Report an error
Declaration of Independence: A story about the Declaration of Independence on the Kids’ Reading Room page in the July 3 Comics II section said that Congress adopted the Declaration on July 2, 1776, and signed it two days later. Congress declared independence on July 2, 1776, and adopted the Declaration two days later; signing didn’t [...]
Photograph: A May 20 letter to the editor incorrectly said a conservative Israeli newspaper digitally scrubbed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton from a photo of Obama administration officials monitoring the raid on Osama bin Laden. The newspaper that altered the photo is based in Brooklyn, N.Y. Link Report an error
Daniel Hernandez: An article in the April 28 Calendar section about author-journalist Daniel Hernandez identified Hernandez as a former Los Angeles Times staff writer. Hernandez is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer and a current staff blogger and news assistant in the Times’ Mexico City bureau. Link Report an error
Bin Laden obituary: The obituary of Osama Bin Laden in the May 2 Section A incorrectly reported the date of his Al Qaeda network’s terrorist attacks on the United States as Sept. 11, 2011. The attacks took place in 2001. Additionally, the obituary omitted the day Bin Laden was killed. It was early Monday in [...]
Madame Nhu: In the April 28 LATExtra section, the obituary and accompanying headlines on Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, South Vietnam’s unofficial first lady during the early part of the Vietnam War, referred to her as Ngo Dinh Nhu. That was her husband’s name. Her birth name, as the story said, was Tran Le Xuan. In [...]
Sunday Conversation: In the Calendar section elsewhere in this edition, the Sunday Conversation column with Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States, gives the release date for his book "The Bond" as April 1. Pacelle's book will be out April 5. Also, the article quotes Pacelle as saying, "People used to [...]
Political novel: Tim Rutten's Feb. 2 Op-Ed column about Simon & Schuster's promotion of the political novel "O" cited two passages it said were from the book, saying they demonstrated the author's partisanship. Neither passage actually appeared in the book. They were both taken from a parody that appeared on the website of the British [...]
Sound mixers: An article in the Feb. 23 Calendar section about Ed Novick and Mark Weingarten, longtime friends who were competing against one another as Oscar nominees for sound mixing, said that one of the few times they had ever worked together was on a musical called "Shag" that was never released in theaters. In [...]
Golden Globes: A critic's notebook on the Golden Globes in the Jan. 18 Calendar, about how passion and quality can pay off in the movie business, described "Barney's Version" as "a $3-million adaptation of Mordecai Richler's acerbic novel and largely backed by Canadian interests." In fact, the budget was $30 million. Link Report an error
Kenneth Larson: In the Dec. 31 Section A, a column by Hector Tobar about Kenneth Larson, who in his frequent published letters in the Los Angeles Times has often celebrated life in California, said he had battled alcohol addiction when he was homeless in Los Angeles. Although Larson says he was indeed homeless for several [...]
Ronald George: An article in the Dec. 30 Section A about retiring Chief Justice Ronald M. George of the California Supreme Court incorrectly referred to the "late" Sargent Shriver. Shriver, the father-in-law of former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, is alive. Link Report an error
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 [...]
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
Three Gorges Dam: An article in Monday’s Section A about China’s massive Three Gorges Dam suggested that the 1989 book “Yangtze! Yangtze!” criticized, among other things, shoddy construction in the dam. The dam project did not enter construction until 1993. Link Report an error
Abandoned newborn: In Wednesday’s LATExtra section, a California Briefing item about a Laguna Niguel woman charged with attempting to kill her newborn girl by dumping her in a trash bin carried an erroneous headline, “Trial set in newborn death.” As the item reported, the girl was discovered alive in the August 2008 incident and is [...]
Duets: Ann Powers’ Critic’s Notebook in Saturday’s Calendar on the current crop of male/female duets misidentified the name of the Katy Perry hit as “California Gurlz.” It’s called “California Gurls.” Link Report an error
‘Hella’ challenge: An article in the July 6 LATExtra section about the proposed scientific use of the slang term “hella” gave the wrong prefixes for 10 to the 21st power and 10 to the minus 21st. They are “zetta” and “zepto,” respectively. It also used the term “negative number” to describe a fractional number. Link [...]
BankSimple: An article in Thursday’s Business section about BankSimple, a new Internet banking firm, said that conventional banks collect at least $24 million a year in overdraft fees. The amount is $24 billion. Also, the article said Alex Payne was a co-founder of Twitter Inc. He is not; Payne, a former Twitter employee, was brought [...]
BP cleanup costs: In Thursday’s Business section, a chart of BP’s annual profits that accompanied an article about the company’s costs associated with the gulf oil spill used an incorrect scale. The range of the chart’s scale was shown as $1.0 billion to $2.5 billion; it should have been $10 billion to $25 billion. Link [...]
