In a story Dec. 14 about military sexual abuse, The Associated Press reported erroneously that an attorney representing military members and veterans said she was surprised by the dismissal of a lawsuit. Susan Burke said she was “not surprised.” Link Report an error
In a Dec. 11 story, The Associated Press erroneously quoted President Obama as saying: “There are going to be people who say, `This is the socialist Obama and he’s come out of the closet.’” That remark was made by 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft, not the president. Link Report an error
CMU professor Kiron Skinner, recently named to GOP presidential candidate and former House speaker Newt Gingrich’s national security team, says she was misquoted in a story Monday about her appointment. She said her quote was: “I’ve been a supporter of Speaker Gingrich for a long time because I’ve seen him in numerous professional circumstances…” The [...]
In a Dec. 4 hometown lead on the NFL game between Carolina and Tampa Bay, The Associated Press erroneously quoted Buccaneers coach Raheem Morris following a 38-19 loss. The coach, referring to what Morris described as poor play by his team, said: “I can take getting beat by a better football team, which they were.” [...]
An interview with the universities minister, David Willetts, described him as an enthusiast for coalition government and quoted him as saying: “You can’t get anywhere without an appeal to tribal loyalty.” In fact he said the opposite: “You can’t get anywhere with an appeal to tribal loyalty.” (‘Many more will go to university than in [...]
In a Nov. 3 story about a Texas judge who was secretly videoed beating his teenage daughter, The Associated Press misquoted the judge’s ex-wife. She blamed the violence on his addiction not his addition. Link Report an error
A critic’s notebook article on Monday about an academic conference at the University of Chicago on the television show ”Jersey Shore” referred imprecisely to a comment made by Candace Moore, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan who spoke about the friendship between Vinny and Pauly D. She linked the quest for ”stranger sex” [...]
In stories July 12 and Oct. 27 on the extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over claims of sexual misconduct, The Associated Press reported that his attorney, Ben Emmerson, said in July that the women involved in the case may have found sex with his client “disrespectful, discourteous or disturbing,” but added that it [...]
Editor’s Note; An earlier version of this story included a comment erroneously attributed to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, criticizing the White House’s efforts at political messaging. Newsweek and The Daily Beast regret the error. The above editor’s note was placed atop a piece by Howard Kurtz.The original version of his story included this quote [...]
A sub-editing error in an article in the Express/Advocate last Friday incorrectly quoted James Musgrave as saying “compared to Sydney’s City2Surf, the Bumble Hill Burn was “for wussygirls’.” It should have read: “I have now decided that the City2Surf’s Heartbreak Hill is for wussygirls! After doing the inaugural Bumble Hill Burn today I can attest [...]
It was difficult enough that the Vancouver Canucks were grieving their former player Rick Rypien, who died suddenly on Monday at 27 after a history of depression. Imagine their feelings when they saw a quote from the Toronto Star’s obit on Rypien that seemed to show GM Mike Gillis calling Rypien “crazy.” The Star’s story [...]
An article on Sunday about economic policy discussions within the Obama administration omitted, in some copies, the word ”only” from a quotation by Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director. In noting that the administration does not see deficits and jobs as an either-or choice, Mr. Pfeiffer said that ”it would be political folly to [...]
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, when speaking of raising taxes to balance Italy’s budget, said, “It’s clear that our hearts are streaming with blood.” A World News article about Italy’s budget measures in some editions Saturday incorrectly quoted Mr. Berlusconi as saying, “It’s clear that our hearts are screaming with blood.” The incorrect quote also [...]
TOWNSVILLE police Inspector Cheryl Scanlon was quoted in the Townsville Bulletin yesterday as saying Crimebusters was “like a neighbourhood watch for the poor.” In fact Insp Scanlon said Crimebusters was “like a neighbourhood watch for the time-poor”. The Bulletin apologises for the error. Report an error
U.K. lawyer Jane Phillips says that in her closing argument in a 2000 libel case in London, she told the jury, referring to reporter Tim Luckett: “It appears from Mr. Luckett’s evidence that it is the police source, who he refused to identify, who is responsible for this information leaking into the public domain in [...]
MONDAY’S story “Children thrive on words” included a statement about the clothes and toys used by children at Hebersham Public School, attributed to a deputy principal, Deidre O’Brien. She did not use the words reported, and the article did not accurately paraphrase what she said. The Herald apologises to Ms O’Brien, the school and parents [...]
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
An article on Tuesday about the testy tone surrounding negotiations between President Obama and Congressional leaders on the budget deficit quoted incorrectly from comments the president made at a news conference before meeting with the leaders. Referring to the need for Republicans and Democrats to compromise, Mr. Obama said both parties needed to “eat our [...]
In my article for the magazine on Jon Huntsman, which went online Monday and appears in print this Sunday, I wrote this line: Common wisdom had it that Obama and his team had shrewdly decided to move Huntsman out of the country and take him off the Republican playing field for 2012 — a not-illogical [...]
In the story headlined “Rita Fan reignites Article 23 debate” on page C3 yesterday, we wrongly stated that former legislator Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai had insisted Article 23 of the Basic Law was “a monster as imagined by many”. What Fan actually said is that Article 23 is “not … a monster as imagined by [...]
A computer security expert featured prominently in a recent Vanity Fair story about a major computer virus has accused the article’s author, Michael Joseph Gross, of manipulating facts and painting an inaccurate picture of his personality. Gawker has a nice summary of the blog post by Ralph Langner. Here’s an example of the kind of [...]
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 [...]
Because of an editing error, an article on Tuesday about a Supreme Court ruling that a mortally wounded man’s identification of his assailant may be used as evidence in court misspelled a word in a phrase used by Justice Antonin Scalia in his dissent. Justice Scalia pondered whether the defendant, convicted by the testimony of [...]
A quote by Tzipi Livni, Israel's former foreign minister, within a panel that formed part of the Palestine papers, was cut in a way that may have given a misleading impression. The quote appeared as: "The Israel policy is to take more and more land day after day and that at the end of the day [...]
This correction, from the Morning Bulletin of Rockhampton, Australia, is making the rounds on Twitter: Thanks, Winston and @rezendi Report an error
