February 28, 2008 – 8:00 am
The Books of The Times review on Feb. 15 of “The Middle-Class Millionaire,” about a new demographic group that can afford expensive new personal services, overstated the cost of concierge-type medicine. Patients pay a retainer of as much as $20,000 a year, not a month. Link
February 25, 2008 – 8:00 am
Shock tactics, page 9, Environment, February 20, included a quote: “when you put the kettle on, there is a horrific jump (from 200 watts) to 2,000 kilowatts. That’s scary.” More scary than was intended; we meant to say 2,000 watts or 2 kilowatts, not 2,000 kilowatts. Link
February 15, 2008 – 8:00 am
Hypatia of Alexandria lived around 400AD, not BC (Meet the mothers of invention, page 16, G2, February 1). Link
February 13, 2008 – 8:00 am
CHINA’S NEW TAX-EXEMPTION RULES mean the government will give up 30 billion yuan, or $4.2 billion, in revenue. In some editions yesterday, a Politics & Economics article incorrectly gave the dollar conversion as $41.7 billion. Link
February 11, 2008 – 8:00 am
On Metro Page B1 Thursday, a headline incorrectly said $211 billion in state funds had been promised for regional levee repairs. The correct amount is $211 million. Link
February 11, 2008 – 8:00 am
An article in Business Day on Thursday about financial problems in the newspaper industry misstated the circulation declines for The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe, which is owned by The New York Times Company. They have lost 20 to 30 percent of their circulation since 2003 — not 30 [...]
February 7, 2008 – 8:00 am
In a Feb. 2 story about a settlement in lawsuits stemming from the deadly 2003 nightclub fire in Rhode Island, The Associated Press reported erroneously that dozens of people and companies sued because of the fire. Hundreds of people filed lawsuits against dozens of people and companies. Link
February 6, 2008 – 8:00 am
A sports article last Tuesday about the current dominance of Boston’s professional football, basketball and baseball teams misstated the chances of any city with only one franchise in each of those sports winning championships in the same season. It is 1 in 2,000, not 1 in 29,000. Link
February 5, 2008 – 8:00 am
To protest NBC’s planned new TV series, “Mafia Wives,” call Vince Manze at NBC’s Burbank studios: 818/840-4444. [The editor thanks reader John Spiciati of New York, for this clarification.]
February 3, 2008 – 8:00 am
In the Jan. 29 “Other Magazines,” Noreen Malone incorrectly stated that the total amount spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts was $5 billion. The actual figure is $500 billion. Link
January 31, 2008 – 8:00 am
Correction: A column on Saturday by Eyad al-Sarraj and Sara Roy incorrectly said that Gaza requires 680,000 tons of flour daily to feed its population. It is 680,000 pounds, which means a reduction of 73 percent, not 99 percent, of flour allowed into Gaza. Link
January 30, 2008 – 8:00 am
Because of an editing error, an article on Monday about the failure of the French bank Société Générale to investigate the actions of a junior trader that eventually cost the bank more than $7 billion misstated, in some copies, the volume of trades placed by the employee. It was $70 billion, not $750 billion. Link
January 29, 2008 – 8:00 am
The US intelligence community’s enthusiasm for hi-tech innovation after 9/11 and the creation of In-Q-Tel, its venture capital fund, in 1999 were anachronistically linked in the article below. Since 9/11 happened in 2001 it could not have led to the setting up of In-Q-Tel two years earlier. Link
Here’s the amusing, offending sentence:
After 9/11, the US [...]
January 28, 2008 – 8:00 am
An article Thursday about a bill introduced by U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) to increase the number of veterinarians nationwide misstated how many veterinarians graduate each year from U.S. veterinary medicine colleges. That number is 2,500, not 86,000. There are about 86,000 veterinarians in the United States. Link
January 28, 2008 – 8:00 am
IN The Herald of January 17 it was reported that the highest paid partner in Brodies, the commercial law firm, took a pay cut last year. The partner in fact had a 15 per cent pay rise. In addition, the gross profit was GBP 11.717m, not GBP 10.75m as reported. The figures used by The [...]
January 24, 2008 – 8:00 am
The article “Star of David in the German armed forces” (January 10 2008) stated: “About 100 000 Jews fought for Germany during World War II. Thousands were decorated for bravery and 12 000 were killed in action.” This should have read “World War I”. Link
January 24, 2008 – 8:00 am
An article on Tuesday about a new television advertisement in Spanish for the Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney misstated the value of his company, Bain Capital, at the beginning of his tenure there. It was $36 million, not $6 billion. Link
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 21, 2008 – 8:00 am
In a Jan. 11 “Trailhead” entry, Christopher Beam incorrectly referred to Hillary Clinton’s economic stimulus package as a $70 program. It would cost $70 billion. Link
January 14, 2008 – 8:00 am
The “record-breaking crust” we mentioned in Greenland is 3.8 billion years old - not 1000 times younger, as we stated. Link
January 9, 2008 – 8:00 am
A Dec. 6 A-section article about Mormonism and presidential candidates incorrectly stated some results of a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. Asked to give a one-word impression of Mormonism, 75 respondents — not 75 percent — said “polygamy,” and 57 respondents — not 57 percent — called the [...]
January 8, 2008 – 8:00 am
A Jan. 3 Gazette article regarding a masseur accused of filming clients was incorrect in stating that Richard Filbin was accused of videotaping 114 clients. There were 114 counts; some of the victims were listed in more than one count. He pleaded guilty to 12 counts, one for each of the known victims who came [...]
January 7, 2008 – 8:00 am
The last paragraph of the Monday “Focus on …” letter (”The problem with ethanol”) should have read that “future ethanol subsidies will be $51 million per day,” instead of $51 billion.
January 7, 2008 – 8:00 am
Ratcliffe power station burns much more than one tonne of coal a day (Up for grabs, page 6, Society, January 2). When all four units are on, it burns 812 tonnes of coal an hour. Link
January 2, 2008 – 8:00 am
An op-ed on Dec. 26, “Putin’s Cold War,” mistakenly referred to the 1993 Yom Kippur war. The year was 1973. Link
