A headline and article on Saturday about “Bridge Over the Wadi,” a documentary about a school for Jewish and Arab pupils shown on the PBS World channel on Sunday, misidentified the school’s location. It is in northern Israel, not on the West Bank. The article also referred incorrectly to the West Bank. While it is [...]
Because of a transcription error, a film review on Friday about “Redbelt” referred incorrectly to the character Sondra, played by Alice Braga. She is mouthy, not mousy. Link
An article on April 20 about Rome at night misidentified the figure from mythology represented in the centerpiece sculpture of the Trevi Fountain. It is Oceanus, the Titan who the ancient Greeks believed ruled the watery elements — not Neptune, the Roman god of the sea. (The error has appeared for years in travel guides [...]
A headline and an article on Monday about a Vanity Fair photograph showing the actress Miley Cyrus in a suggestive pose left the incorrect impression that she was bare-breasted. While the pose was indeed revealing, she was wrapped in what appeared to be a bedsheet; she was not topless. Link
An obituary on April 7 and in some copies on April 6 about the actor Charlton Heston misstated the year he enlisted in the Army Air Forces, as well as other aspects of his life. He enlisted in 1942, not 1944. He served in the Aleutian Islands about two years, not three. And he and [...]
An article on Sunday about companies that missed Wall Street earnings estimates after a long history of exceeding them misstated General Electric’s results for the first quarter of this year. It earned $4.3 billion; it did not have a quarterly loss. Link
An article on April 4 about a disclosure by Speaker Christine C. Quinn that the New York City Council had been appropriating city funds to nonexistent organizations misspelled, in some editions, the surname of a top finance staffer for Ms. Quinn who has since left her office. And a correction in this space on April [...]
The Media Equation column on Monday, about the Web site The Smoking Gun, which broke the story that The Los Angeles Times relied on fraudulent documents for an article on a 1994 assault on the rapper Tupac Shakur, misstated the nature of the assault. Mr. Shakur was shot five times; he was not murdered. (He [...]
A museum review on Friday about the Newseum, in Washington, misstated a word in a famous headline on display. The headline, from The Chicago Daily Tribune in 1948, said, “Dewey Defeats Truman,” not “Dewey Beats Truman.” Link
The Times made the same error just over a year ago.
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 [...]
A front-page obituary and a headline in some editions on Sunday about the actor Charlton Heston misstated his age and the year of his birth. He was 84, not 83, and was born in 1923, not 1924. Link
The Huffington Post has a nice screen grab of the confusion, along with some interesting updates/analysis.
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 [...]
An article on Wednesday about José Canseco’s new book on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball referred incorrectly to a report in The New York Times in January involving his proposal to keep Magglio Ordóñez of the Chicago White Sox out of the book. The Times reported that Canseco had asked Ordóñez to invest [...]
An article last Friday about the difference between the Dalai Lama’s stance on Tibet and the more aggressive position of some of the younger exiles misstated his followers’ beliefs about his reincarnation. They regard the Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of Avalokitesvara, the Buddha of Compassion — not the Buddha himself. The article also referred [...]
A picture last Sunday with an essay about a crack house in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, was published in error. The three houses in the picture are on the same street as the crack house, but none of the three figured in the essay. Link
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 [...]
An article on Monday about a popular Internet video prank known as rickrolling referred incorrectly to its use during a March 8 women’s basketball game at Eastern Washington University, based on information provided by Pawl Fisher, a student; Davin Perry, who shoots game videos for the university; and Dave Cook, its sports information director. The [...]
Carol Goodhue, readers representative of the San Diego Union-Tribune wrote a recent column about how a correction to an error in William Kristol’s New York Times column didn’t make its way to her paper before publication. As a result, the Times has now changed the way it sends out corrections to subscribers of its [...]
A picture with a report in the World Briefing column on Thursday about early elections in Kuwait was published in error. The photograph was of the country’s prime minister, Sheik Nasser al-Mohamed al-Ahmad al-Sabah — not of the Emir of Kuwait, Sheik Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah, who dissolved parliament and called for the elections. Link
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 [...]
Because of an editing error, an article in the Styles section on Thursday about the Mayflower Hotel in Washington referred imprecisely to Marion S. Barry Jr., the former Washington mayor who was convicted in 1990 on a misdemeanor drug charge after being accused of using cocaine while staying at the Mayflower in 1989. Mr. Barry’s [...]
The Big City column on Friday, about the clash between fantasy and reality in the prostitution scandal that ensnared Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York, referred incorrectly in some editions to Kristen, the prostitute he is said to have met in a Washington hotel last month. She was not in fact a client of Emperor’s [...]
An article in Business Day on Tuesday about the rising price of diesel misstated the amount of diesel and gasoline used by Americans in 2007. They used about 3.395 billion barrels of gasoline, not 3.395 billion gallons, and about 1.55 billion barrels of diesel and heating oil, not 1.55 billion gallons. (At 42 gallons to [...]
The State of the Art column in Business Day on Thursday, about the Sony A300 digital camera, attributed an erroneous distinction to one of its features. The camera’s ability to display an uninterrupted preview of an image on the back-panel screen because of a second image sensor is a refined version of a system that [...]
Because of an editing error, an article on Sunday about a new book by L. Patrick Gray III, the former director of the F.B.I., that offers new theories about Watergate misstated, in some editions, the employment status of Tim Weiner, who wrote a book, “Legacy of Ashes: The History of the C.I.A.,” which discussed the [...]
