The acrostic answers last Sunday, for the acrostic puzzle of April 10, omitted the final two solutions. For letter V, with the clue “Distinctive features of the primitive reptilian archaeopteryx,” the answer was “Feathers.” For letter W, with the clue “Admit to being wrong,” the answer was “Eat crow.” Link Report an error
An article on Thursday about museums that exhibit the clothing of couturiers referred incorrectly to Roberto Capucci, a designer whose clothes are the subject of a current exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He is alive. Link Report an error
Lots of folks are sending this in, so I figured I should publish it today, rather than wait until tomorrow: A series of pictures last Sunday of covers of the magazine Tiger Beat, with an article about how the original teen-girl tabloid has remained virtually unchanged since its inception in 1965, erroneously included a parody [...]
An entry in the “What’s on Today” television highlights in some editions on Tuesday, about a new series on WE that stars the R&B singer Toni Braxton, misstated its title. It is “Braxton Family Values,” not “Braxton Family Battles.” Link There was also this recent Braxton correction from the New York Post: The Post incorrectly [...]
An obituary on Saturday about Jean Dinning, who wrote the hit song “Teen Angel,” included several errors. The city where she and her sisters Lou and Ginger had a 15-minute radio show was Enid, Okla., not Enid, Kan. The singer who died in a plane crash along with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper was [...]
A picture caption last Thursday with an article about the West Texas desert home of John Wells misstated the volume of water captured by the gutters on a shack. It is 140 gallons from an inch of rainfall, not 1,500 gallons. Link Report an error
Versions of an article that appeared online and in print, examining Germany's social, cultural and economic background, contained various errors. Germany is not Europe's largest country – France is bigger – and in terms of exports it is not third to China and the US in the world; it now ranks second only to China. [...]
An article on Monday about strategies for picking teams in N.C.A.A. basketball tournament pools misstated the method of scoring in the New York Times contest. The Times’s system rewards its participants for picking lower-seeded teams by giving bonus points based on the difference in the two teams’ seedings; it does not give the same number [...]
From the paper's Arts Beat blog: Editor’s Note (slightly overdue). An article on Oct. 21, 1942, about the death of Byron Darnton, a war correspondent for The New York Times, described the death as “accidental” without any elaboration. Two subsequent articles said the boat he was traveling on “was bombed from the air.” It was [...]
Because of an editing error, an article on Tuesday about measures to rethink computer technology for the coming era of nanoelectronics misstated the amount of energy needed to keep a 100-watt bulb lighted for an hour. It is 360,000 joules, not eight million joules. Link Report an error
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 Correspondent’s Notebook article last Sunday, about a CBS News journalist who was sexually abused while reporting from Cairo, referred incorrectly to Gaza, where the writer of the article, Sabrina Tavernise, once worked. Gaza is not “in Israel.” And an accompanying picture caption misspelled the given name of the CBS journalist. As the article correctly [...]
An article on Jan. 30 about the comedic tone displayed by N.H.L. players during a live televised draft on Jan. 28 to choose the two rosters for the All-Star Game contained several errors pertaining to one source of comedy — Patrick Kane’s humorous effort to prevent his friend and Chicago Blackhawks teammate Jonathan Toews from [...]
An obituary on Jan. 29 about the comedian Charlie Callas described incorrectly his appearance on “The Tonight Show” on Sept. 21, 1982. While Mr. Callas was never on the show again, he did not in fact have an on-air falling out with the host, Johnny Carson. He did not shove Mr. Carson, nor did Mr. [...]
An article on Jan. 16 about drilling for oil off the coast of Angola erroneously reported a story about cows falling from planes, as an example of risks in any engineering endeavor.No cows, smuggled or otherwise, ever fell from a plane into a Japanese fishing rig. The story is an urban legend, and versions of [...]
An entry in the ''What's On Today'' television highlights in some editions on Thursday about Peter Sellers films on TCM misidentified his role in ''Man in a Cocked Hat.'' He played Prime Minister Amphibulos, not a ''bumbling diplomat.'' (That role was played by Terry Thomas.) The entry also misidentified one of Sellers's roles in ''Dr. [...]
A review on Dec. 26 about “Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses,” a memoir by Claire Dederer, included a misattributed quotation. While Nietzsche was not one to shy away from home decorating tropes (“I cannot stand this motley wallpaper style,” he wrote of George Sand in “Twilight of the Idols”), he is not the [...]
There are a few topics that every public editor or ombudsman will inevitably address during their tenure. Conflicts of interest and accusations of bias are bound to provide column fodder. Corrections and accuracy, too. And within the realm of corrections and accuracy, you can usually count on an ombud examining the tension between speed and [...]
An article last Thursday about the men’s wear shows in Milan misidentified the clothing company where Mark McNairy, the designer for Woolrich Woolen Mills, once worked. He was a designer for J. Press, not J. Crew. Link Report an error
An obituary on Tuesday about Richard Winters, who commanded the World War II Army unit that was the subject of the book and television series ''Band of Brothers,'' contained several errors. A 1944 battle in which he was shot in the leg was in Carentan, France, shortly after D-Day, not on Utah Beach in Normandy [...]
A report in the Slap Shot hockey column on Dec. 26 misidentified the captain of the Dallas Stars who was praised for providing inspiration by playing with a badly broken nose. He is Brenden Morrow — not Brad Richards, a teammate. And because of that error, a quotation by Dallas Coach Marc Crawford was erroneously [...]
An article on Tuesday about research into the mechanics of bird flight misstated the number of hummingbird species. It is about 350, not about 9,000. (There are approximately 9,000 species of birds over all.) Link Report an error
An article last Sunday about regulations in Britain aimed at reducing the environmental effects of excess packaging misstated the number of tons of carbon dioxide emissions that were saved as a result of a voluntary government program to reduce food and packaging waste. The amount was 3.6 million tons, not 3.6 tons. Link Report an [...]
Because of an editing error, an article on Friday about the annual televised question-and-answer broadcast by Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, in which he addressed a broad range of questions submitted by Russians, misstated one of them. It was, “What is the secret of your success?” — not “What is the secret of [...]
A column last Sunday about the plight of Texas Democrats, and how they have become the political equivalent of the often-struggling Baltimore Orioles, contained several errors. The Orioles won their division once in the 1990s, not twice. (They were the wild-card team in 1996 and then won the division in 1997.) Ann Richards defeated Clayton [...]
