A story in Wednesday’s Local & State section incorrectly stated that James Lambert, who was fatally shot Tuesday by an off-duty firefighter, had been convicted of taking indecent liberties with a child. Because of an error interpreting court records, the Observer wrongly attributed that conviction to Lambert. Instead, another man by the same name and [...]
In “Two mullahs went into a bar…” (November 26th) we cited Omid Djalili as a British Muslim comedian. He jokes about, among others, Muslims but is himself a Bahai. Sorry. Link *Correction December 2, 2011: The orignal version of this post’s headline mistakenly used the word “be” instead of “but”. (“Not a Muslim, be he [...]
Looks like the folks at the South China Morning Post aren’t boxing fans: That’s George Foreman, not Joe Frazier. Ouch. I’ll update with the correction when it runs. Update Nov. 10 9:54 pm: The correction: The uncaptioned photograph published on C8, the Joe Frazier obituary page, in yesterday’s Sports section was of George Foreman. We [...]
ON PAGE 13 of last week’s edition of the Cornish Guardian (October 19) a court report concerning former Fifteen restaurant apprentice chef Kieran Charles Leverett was accompanied by a photograph captioned with his name. It has been pointed out that the person in the photograph was not the defendant but a Mr Jake Joynes. We [...]
A photo caption on page B1 Sunday with a story about WynSpring Family Resource Center’s Diva Day incorrectly identified Chayil McFalls as a former foster child who has been adopted. Chayil, 6, who has never been in foster care, attended the event as a volunteer. Link Report an error
The picture caption accompanying ‘ How first a marriage then a political career were ended’ (22 January 2011) incorrectly identified the plain-clothes policeman appearing in the picture between Mr Johnson and his wife, as DC Paul Rice, who it was alleged had an affair with Mrs Johnson. In fact the picture was of Sergeant Paul [...]
A July 16 Starweek photo accompanying a sports listing of golf coverage incorrectly identified the subject as Bernhard Langer, pictured here. In fact, the photo was of fellow German Martin Kayner. Link Report an error
Correction: the original version of this post indicated that [Tucson Catholic] Bishop Kicanas admitted to performing oral sex on West, which, clearly, is not the case. Kicanas merely asked the Board to spare West’s life. It was West’s former neighbor who admitted to performing oral sex on him. The post has since been modified. Link [...]
“Every revolution has its face”, said a leader comment, noting that in Iran’s case in recent times the face was that of a young woman shot in the chest during a demonstration (Syria: The truth will out, 2 June, page 32). This was the latest of numerous Guardian slips since 2009 in naming Neda Soltani [...]
Buzzmeter: A caption with the Buzzmeter item in the June 3 Envelope section said that the photo above was from the HBO series “Game of Thrones.” The photo was from HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire.” Link Report an error
A Reuters error noted by Reuters’ own Good, Bad & Ugly blog: Report an error
A picture caption on Tuesday with an article in some editions about the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Gala misidentified a designer standing by the actress Penelope Cruz. He is Oscar de la Renta, not Giorgio Armani. 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
An article on Monday about sentiment among local officials and residents in Ossining, N.Y., in favor of closing the Sing Sing prison misstated the current occupation of Richard Wishnie, who said, ”They would never have built a maximum-security prison in a place like this today.” He is a lobbyist, not a Westchester County legislator. (Mr. [...]
In some editions Monday, a Money & Investing article about the Galleon insider-trading trial was incorrectly accompanied by a photo of Arindam Ghosh, a vice president at consulting firm Analysis Group. Because of incorrect information from Bloomberg News, he was misidentified as former Intel Corp. executive Rajiv Goel, a defendant in the Galleon case. In [...]
In some editions of Saturday's Herald a picture of Malcolm Williams, director of Outreach Media, was incorrectly identified as that of David Nicholls, president of the Atheist Foundation of Australia. Link This mistake takes on extra significance when you know that Outreach Media "exists to promote the Christian Gospel through various media channels and to [...]
In a story Jan. 17 about winners of Golden Globe Awards in television, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the miniseries "Carlos" was about a drug kingpin. The TV movie was about a terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal. Link Report an error
Just noticed a TODAY Show correction from earlier in January: Former “Brady Bunch” star Christopher Knight was wrongly identified as the defendant in a lawsuit for assault and battery earlier this week in a TODAYshow.com story reported by Us Weekly and attributed to Radaronline.com. Some additional details are on TODAYshow.com: RadarOnline.com is reporting that it [...]
A report in the Slap Shot hockey column on Dec. 26 misidentified the captain of the Dallas Stars who was praised for providing inspiration by playing with a badly broken nose. He is Brenden Morrow — not Brad Richards, a teammate. And because of that error, a quotation by Dallas Coach Marc Crawford was erroneously [...]
The Chicago Sun-Times ran the picture of the wrong baseball player on the front page of its Saturday sports section. Off the Bench explains: The print news business is a tough one, and there are thousands of chances for a screw-up in every edition that goes out. Some of those screw-ups are a little worse [...]
A PHOTOGRAPH that accompanied a story in yesterday's Daily News was not of the massage therapist Shannon O'Toole, but of a different woman, an author also named Shannon O'Toole, who wrote "Wedded to the Game: The Real Lives of NFL Women." That book, published by the University of Nebraska press in 2006, is a nonfiction [...]
Pretty awful error by Fox News yesterday: The video is at Outside the Beltway. Report an error
A news obituary Thursday for Morris Goodman, 85, a professor of anatomy and cell biology at Wayne State University, ran with a photo of attorney Morris Goodman, who is alive. The correct photo of the late professor is at left. From a report by a local Fox station about the mistake: Reading the obituary page [...]
The Independent (U.K.) is taking a lot of heat, and deservedly so, after making a major front page error this week. Here's the offending page, via the Guardian: The man in the image is reportedly Ljubomir Jurkovic. Here's how Croatian Times described the different between him and the man the Independent was talking about: Although [...]
IN Saturday's Evening Post we printed a photograph of a man in connection with a court case involving a disturbance after the Swansea V Cardiff football match on November 7 last year. The caption stated that the man pictured was Kevin Richards, one of the defendants. This was in fact incorrect. The man pictured was [...]
