LAST week’s article on tax, Get Your Act Together by Mike Hanley, contained some inaccuracies.
A tax return is usually between 17 and 48 pages, not up to 180 pages as stated.
The Medicare rebate provides a 20 per cent refund of out of pocket medical expenses over $1500.
The article stated that the Medicare levy is calculated [...]
A story on a Christian hip hop DJ in the April 6 issue of South Jersey Living contain incorrect names and details about an abuse incident. B.I.G. C.I.T.Y., aka Ron Goodwin, of Cherry Hill, said he is not certain of the identity of the man who nearly raped him and then raped his brother when [...]
An obituary in some editions on Sunday and in some copies on Monday about the actor Charlton Heston misstated his given name at birth. It was John Charles Carter, not Charlton Carter. The obituary also referred incorrectly to the character played by Orson Welles in the film “Touch of Evil,” in which Mr. Heston had [...]
Guantanamo Bay: An article March 28 in Section A about a typical day in the life of a prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, as gleaned from reporting trips over the last three years, made several observations that Pentagon officials and officers of the Joint Task Force at Guantanamo say are outdated or erroneous. [...]
In the article “Is Briana Waters a terrorist?,” published Mar. 27, the subhead stated that “U.S. attorneys exploited post-9/11 counterterrorism laws to pursue and prosecute an environmental activist.” In fact, while tougher post-9/11 policies on eco-terror played a role in the Waters case, no new laws were used in her prosecution.
Upon review, we [...]
An obituary last Thursday about the actor Richard Widmark referred incorrectly to the genesis of the movie “Cheyenne Autumn” and misstated other aspects of his work. The film, in which he played an Army captain, was suggested by the 1953 book “Cheyenne Autumn,” by Mari Sandoz, according to the film’s credits; it was not based [...]
Newspaper: An article in the March 23 Opinion section about the demise of the Long Beach Press-Telegram stated that the editor was among those who recently lost their jobs at the newspaper. It was the managing editor. Also, the article stated that the Long Beach Independent was an afternoon paper. It was published in the [...]
An article on March 16 profiling three sex workers in the wake of Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s resignation after revelations that he patronized prostitutes misconstrued how two of the women, identified by the pseudonyms Faith O’Donnell and Sally Anderson, said they earned a living. The resulting misrepresentation of the two women’s work included a headline that [...]
From earlier this month:
The Books of The Times review in Weekend on Friday, about “Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of ‘Energy Independence,’ ” misstated the author’s surname at several points, and a description of an online excerpt from the book misstated his surname as well. As the review noted elsewhere, he is Robert [...]
A series of corrections from The Gazette (Montreal). March 5:
A story in yesterday’s paper misquoted Liberal MP Irwin Cotler’s comments about Saul Itzhayek, a Montrealer who is in prison in India for an entry-visa offence. Cotler did not say that Ottawa has failed to intervene in Itzhayek’s case. In fact, the federal government is [...]
On Feb. 28, in the Flavor section, The Courant printed a review about a new Torrington restaurant, Prime Steak and Seafood.
At the urging of the restaurant owner and its manager, who said the opinion piece contained inaccuracies and overstatement, the review was scrutinized by the editors and discussed with the reviewer.
The findings:
The reviewer, Elissa Altman, [...]
An article in Play magazine last Sunday about the turnaround of the Boston Celtics gave an outdated name for the team’s home arena in two references. It is TD Banknorth Garden, not the Fleet Center. The article also misidentified the game in which Brian Scalabrine, now a forward and center for the Celtics, made four [...]
The Strip Podcast Blog spotted this lengthy correction to a story in the Las Vegas Sun:
The following story had several reporting and editing problems as well as some factual errors. The premise of the story was that even affluent and normally peaceful Summerlin, where a Palo Verde High School student was shot to death by [...]
February 22, 2008 – 8:00 am
An article published in the Dec. 26 editions of The Sun on the deaths of Jasmin Borum and Pauline Borum incorrectly characterized the relationship between Jasmin and her parents. Jasmin’s father, Alfred Maurice Robinson, and his wife, Sue Robinson, say they were active in Jasmin’s life and tried twice to obtain custody of her.
The [...]
January 30, 2008 – 8:00 am
A Jan. 27 Style & Arts article about photographer Jill Greenberg incorrectly described a primate named Mala as a chimp. Mala is a baboon. Also, Greenberg’s photo in the February issue of GQ is of a lamb, not a llama. Link
January 28, 2008 – 8:00 am
In a story published on Page 7 of the Thursday edition of the Ottawa Sun, it was incorrectly reported that an expert testified that OPP officers, involved in a fatal Nov. 2005 shooting, did not follow their training.
It was incorrectly stated that an OPP officer broke OPP rules regarding the shooting. It was also incorrectly [...]
January 25, 2008 – 8:00 am
Hindu-Episcopal service: An article in Sunday’s California section about a joint religious service involving Hindus and Episcopalians said that all those attending the service at St. John’s Cathedral in Los Angeles were invited to Holy Communion. Although attendees walked toward the Communion table, only Christians were encouraged to partake of Communion. Out of respect for [...]
January 23, 2008 – 8:00 am
The Oldham Era of La Grange, KY* published a very long correction after an article about county affairs managed to get many, many facts wrong. The correction is online here. And below are excerpts from the paper’s explanation of the errors:
…this week The Oldham Era is taking a serious error on the chin. We’re bearing [...]
January 17, 2008 – 8:00 am
An article on Jan. 3 about an announcement by the Suffolk County, N.Y., district attorney that he would not retry Martin Tankleff in the 1988 murders of his parents after his conviction was overturned by a state appellate court misquoted, in some copies, Judge Stephen Braslow of Suffolk County Court, who had refused Mr. Tankleff’s [...]
January 14, 2008 – 8:00 am
An obituary Friday about Sir Edmund Hillary, who with Tenzing Norgay became the first to scale Mount Everest, misidentified the route they took to the summit. It is the South Col, not the South Tor. In comparing the feat to one by Charles A. Lindbergh, the obituary misstated Lindbergh’s accomplishment. Though he was the first [...]
January 7, 2008 – 8:00 am
An obituary on Dec. 28 about Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan, misstated the location of her detention at the time her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former president and prime minister, was hanged by the military authorities in April 1979. It was a deserted police training camp at Sihala, Pakistan, a few [...]
January 7, 2008 – 8:00 am
An essay on Dec. 16 about J. M. Coetzee misspelled the given name of the cultural critic who once referred to him as “the Greta Garbo of South African literature.” He is Shaun de Waal, not Sean. The essay also referred incorrectly to the student with whom the protagonist of Coetzee’s novel “Disgrace” was involved [...]
January 7, 2008 – 8:00 am
FishBowlNY spotted a column by John Baer of the Philadelphia Daily News in which the writer fesses up to the mistakes he made in 2007. It’s a cleansing read:
…This is the year-end column in which I admit mistakes I made in the name of truth-seeking - some of them sort of technical, others just plain [...]
January 4, 2008 – 8:00 am
I’m a bit late to this one, but Doug Fisher at Common Sense Journalism spotted a November article in the Wall Street Journal that contained a multitude of errors, some of which have been corrected by the paper. Others remain. Fisher’s post on the mistakes is worth reading, if only to count the mistakes. Fisher [...]
January 2, 2008 – 8:00 am
TOWN OF BURLINGTON — Debra Lange’s problems with loose pit bulls in her neighborhood keep getting exasperated.
Not only has she endured two chases by a neglectful neighbor’s loose canines, a report in Wednesday’s Journal Times on the most recent incident had the facts wrong, incorrectly stating that Lange was the person cited for the loose [...]
