October 3, 2008 – 8:00 am
An obituary on Page 1B in Wednesday’s editions on former federal judge Joe O. Eaton gave his name incorrectly and misidentified him in the accompanying photograph. In the photo, Eaton is on the left. Link
October 1, 2008 – 8:00 am
Deep depression: Our economics editor has officially gone from recession to depression. By mangling the names of two of history’s most highly decorated economists, John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman, we not only created an economy of truth but blamed poor Milton Keynes for having “crazy” ideas (We can all learn from Depression, Opinion, page [...]
September 22, 2008 – 8:00 am
Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s name was misspelled inadvertently in a column in today’s Viewpoints section. Link
September 22, 2008 – 8:00 am
A headline on September 18 stated that Google is axing 24,600 jobs. In fact it is US technology giant Hewlett-Packard that is cutting jobs.
September 17, 2008 – 8:00 am
An Aug. 9 essay on Jamaican runners in Weekend Journal that referred to Jamaican immigration to Canada in the 1960s incorrectly identified Canada as New Canada. Separately, an Aug. 16 Olympics article on Canada’s medal count incorrectly referred to the country as the Commonwealth of Canada. Link
September 12, 2008 – 8:00 am
Edward Schumacher-Matos’ ombudsman column, which appeared Sunday on Page 1L, misspelled Miami Herald columnist Myriam Marquez’s name. Link
August 21, 2008 – 8:00 am
The headline for a letter in Tuesday’s Letters to the Editor incorrectly read, “No less than Chevron.” It should have read, “No less than Chevrolet.” Link
August 19, 2008 – 8:00 am
An article on Wednesday about the rough debut for Charlie Zink, a rookie knuckleball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, misspelled the surname of a knuckleballer from the 1930s and ’40s, when such pitchers were not as rare. He was Johnny Niggeling, not Niggling. (The error also appeared in an article in March 1984 about [...]
Daniel at Philadelphia Weekly’s Philadelphia Will Do blog spotted this lovely typo on the front page of the Center City Weekly Press:
An image of the page:
As Daniel notes, this is the same paper that last year ran a Super Bowl preview featuring the teams from 2004’s game.
‘Not the Messiah’: In some copies of Monday’s Calendar section, a review of “Not the Messiah (He’s a Very Naughty Boy)” at the Hollywood Bowl referred to the production as “Not the Messiah (He’s a Very Bad Boy).” Link
An article by The Associated Press on Wednesday about a speech by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran to the Nonaligned Movement of nations meeting in Tehran misidentified the country that the United Nations has penalized for refusing to halt enrichment of uranium. It is Iran, not Iraq. Link
A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that the name of the man who works at 23rd and E. Union and who knew homicide victim Troy Peters was Serious Knowledge. His name is Saviour Knowledge. Link (to correction with slightly different wording)
We would like to correct an error in an article titled Mentally ill woman ‘beat maids to death’ published on this page in the July 24 edition. We mentioned, “Police said Maria Ursula Tangguh, 50, had often physically abused…”. It should have read “Police said Renata Tan, 49, had often physically abused…”
Our review last week of the British Museum’s new exhibition, “Hadrian: Empire and Conflict”, mistakenly reported that the Roman emperor Hadrian commissioned the Parthenon. It is, of course, the Pantheon that is Hadrian’s most famous monument. Our thanks to the 46 readers who have written in to point this out, and our apologies for the [...]
In the Department of Human Behavior column in the July 14 A-section, Jay Goldstein of the University of Maryland was referred to as “Bernstein” in some instances. Link
In Wednesday’s endorsements of candidates for Houston County Commission, Larry Thomson’s name was spelled incorrectly and the picture that ran was not of him. The Telegraph regrets the error - The editors.
Because of an editing error, an article on Thursday about negotiations over a security agreement between Iraq and the United States, under which private security contractors would no longer be immune from Iraqi law, gave an outdated name for a private security contractor with a reputation in Iraq for excessive force. It is Blackwater Worldwide, [...]
A story in yesterday’s Spectator mixed up who rescued whom in the Colombian raid that freed Ingrid Betancourt and several other hostages. The Colombian military rescued them from a guerrilla group known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
As well, a story in Thursday’s paper about the rescue misspelled Colombia. We apologize for the [...]
The On Religion column on Saturday, about efforts by Prison Fellowship Ministries to roll back mandatory-minimum sentencing, used an erroneous title for James Dobson, the leader of Focus on the Family, which opposes such efforts. Dr. Dobson has a doctorate in child development but is not a minister, so he is not “the Rev.” James [...]
The American Family Association’s OneNewsNow site has a standard practice of using the word “homosexual”* instead of “gay” when it comes to, well, gay people. They even set up a filter to automatically make the change.
As has been noted by sites such as Boing Boing and PageOneQ, among others, this practice didn’t serve ONN well [...]
A story on Thursday’s Page B1 transposed the name of an Austin police officer with that of a man facing sexual assault charges. The story should have made clear that former motel manager Douglas Wayne Ward is the suspect in the case, and that police say they found photos of children on a computer seized [...]
A report in the “Arts, Briefly” column on Monday about Jordan’s return of looted antiquities to Iraq misspelled the name of the ancient Assyrian city from which one of the most valuable pieces came. It was Nimrud, not Nimrod. Link
Celebrity photos: An article in Tuesday’s Calendar section about celebrity photos on the walls of businesses said the tradition has been around since the time of silent film star Charlie Chan. It should have said Charlie Chaplin. Link
The name of Lynne Truss, who wrote the foreword on Joni Mitchell in today’s Great Lyricists booklet, is misspelled on the cover as Lynn Truss. Link
Truss, of course, is the author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves.
Jodi Guber: A photo caption with the Cause Celebre column in Friday’s Calendar section misspelled Jodi Guber’s name as Jodie, and misidentified her as producer Peter Guber’s wife. She is his daughter. Link
