This morning’s edition of The Gazette, the English language daily in Montreal, included a front page error: the paper listed an incorrect team when reporting the score of yesterday’s Grey Cup CFL game. (This is kind of like getting a team wrong when listing the final score of the Super Bowl.) The paper listed the [...]
THE Daily Dispatch reported on the front page yesterday that Education Department chief director Zoleka Makina had been suspended on charges of non-performance. This is not correct. The chief director who is facing charges for non-performance is Nosipho Skenjana. Makina resigned from the department to join the Department of Agriculture. We regret the error and [...]
An article on Monday about the possibility that San Francisco voters may elect the city’s first Chinese-American mayor today misstated the name of the news organization that reported on the possible issues in the campaign of Edwin M. Lee, a longtime city official now serving as interim mayor. It is The Bay Citizen, not The [...]
An earlier version of this post misspelled the surname of Herman Cain as McCain. Link Thanks, Dave! Report an error
In an Oct. 18 story about the Scream Awards, The Associated Press misspelled the first name of Pee-wee Herman as Pee Wee. Link Report an error
Novelist Haruki Murakami was said to be fond of the works of Raymond Carver; that should have been Raymond Chandler (‘I took a gamble and survived’, 15 October, page 36, Weekend). Link Puzzled by the headline? Explanation. Report an error
An article on Thursday about the family seltzer-delivery business of Walter Backerman, who is helped by his 14-year-old son Joey, misspelled the name of a celebrity on ”Jersey Shore” whom Joey likes. The celebrity is Snooki, not Snookie. Link Report an error
A music review on Sept. 5 about the Rock the Bells hip-hop show on Governors Island, where 11 albums were performed in their entirety, included several errors. The rapper who made the album “Heavy Mental” is Killah Priest, not Killa Priest. The album by Raekwon re-enacted at the concert is “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx,” [...]
This story originally misidentified the title of the Sir-Mix-a-Lot song that Sarah Palin sang along with. It is “Baby Got Back,” not “I Like Big Butts.” Link Thanks, Jim! Report an error
In a Sept. 15 “Science,” Daniel Engber mistakenly referred to the latest Transformers movie as Dark Side of the Moon. That’s the title of a Pink Floyd album. The movie is subtitled Dark of the Moon. Link Thanks, James! Report an error
An article from Music Week that explains a recent, embarrassing error made by the publication: So, here’s what happened… Music Week recently conducted an interview with the utterly charming and mind-blowingly successful songwriter RedOne. For quite a lengthy period he talked about how he had recently been in the studio with Dive Bella Dive, One [...]
A REPORT on a former Army agent who spied on the IRA and who uses the pseudonym ‘Sam Rosenfeld’ wrongly confused him with a former Royal Irish Regiment officer of the same name (News, early editions, August 2). We are happy to set the record straight. Previously. Report an error
In the initial version of a July 31 story about the Christian background of Anders Behring Breivik, The Associated Press misstated the title of an upcoming book about religion and terrorism. The correct title is “Islamic Pacifism: Global Muslims in the Post-Osama Era,” not post-Obama era. 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 [...]
Due to the author being a complete moron, an earlier version of this article misidentified Burklund as someone totally different. We regret the error, because getting the names of people right is definitely in the top 25 of Important Journalism-y Things. Link Report an error
In a story about former first lady Betty Ford’s death, The Associated Press incorrectly identified one of the speakers who will deliver a eulogy at her California funeral. The speaker will be Geoffrey Mason, who is affiliated with the Betty Ford Center, not Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, a University of Michigan dean. Link Report an error
In the June 23 “Press Box,” Jack Shafer misspelled Jimmy in the name of Janet Cooke’s fabricated 1980 Washington Post article, “Jimmy’s World.” Link Report an error
“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 [...]
Adam Ant’s new band is the Good, the Bad and the Lovely Posse, not the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Posse, an unintended slight that appeared in a review (Adam Ant, 26 May, page 44). Link Report an error
A correction from China’s official Xinhua News Service: In the title, please read “Iceland volcano ash cloud disrupts domestic aviation”, instead of “Ireland volcano ash cloud disrupts domestic aviation”. Link Report an error
An article meant to name Osama bin Laden, but instead said: “Asked on Wednesday whether the team that killed Obama had come under fire, (Jay) Carney said the White House had gone to the limit in providing details and that any more would risk future operations” (Photos reveal gruesome aftermath of Bin Laden raid, 5 [...]
The Obama/Osama errors keep rolling in. (Read my full collection here.) The South China Morning Post distinguished itself by making the mistake in a headline and then publishing an incorrect correction: In a headline on page A2 yesterday, the US president’s first name was erroneously given instead of that of Osama bin Laden. We apologise [...]
An article in the April 28 edition about students protesting tuition hikes incorrectly identified a person as Robert Bhavin, 21, a senior political science major from Edison. His name is actually “Bhavin Patel.” Report an error
A front-page story in some editions Monday incorrectly referred to Osama bin Laden as Obama. In the same story, a photograph cutline wrongly said two aircraft hit the same tower of the World Trade Center. The planes hit different towers. Link Read my roundup of other recent Obama/Osama errors here. Report an error
A federal election was held in Canada last night, and one of the biggest errors made by the mainstream press came from the Whig-Standard in Kingston, Ontario. The error itself is common: the paper printed a winning candidate’s last name as Tsu when it is actually Hsu. But oh my they did it in a [...]
