Tag Archives: obiticide

Death by media

April 24, 2008 – 8:00 am

In our obituary of Maryam Firouz (page 35, March 31), we said her daughter Afsar had predeceased her. That is not the case. Apologies.

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Death by media

April 14, 2008 – 8:00 am

An obituary for Jason Marvin Nichols should not have appeared in Friday’s paper. Mr. Nichols is alive.
The death notice is online, but the correction isn’t.
Thanks, Jonathan!

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Death by media

March 18, 2008 – 8:00 am

Barbara Seaman’s biography of Jacqueline Susann, Lovely Me, was inadvertently described as an obituary (Barbara Seaman obituary, page 41, March 12). Link

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Paper kills Billy Graham

March 12, 2008 – 8:00 am

A March 9 Magazine article about hospitals in North Korea incorrectly referred to “the late evangelist Billy Graham.” Graham, 89, lives near Asheville, N.C. Link

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Death by media

February 13, 2008 – 8:00 am

A headline on Monday with an article about pressure on the Israeli government to respond more forcefully to rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza misstated the condition of two brothers, ages 8 and 19, after an attack on their town, Sderot. They were seriously wounded; they are not dead. Link

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Another death by media

February 5, 2008 – 8:00 am

Frank Verducci, the Barringer High School coach of Pro Football Hall of Famer Andre Tippett, is not dead, as was reported in the Saturday Sports section. Frank Verducci’s brother Tony, a coach at Seton Hall Prep, died in 1988.

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Paper kills Frank McCourt

January 7, 2008 – 8:00 am

A news article in last Sunday’s Stars magazine incorrectly reported the death of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt. The writer is not dead.

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Death by media

December 21, 2007 – 8:00 am

A story on Page B3 of Sunday’s edition incorrectly stated that a 24-year-old man shot in the chest during a robbery last week on Grovewood Avenue in North Collinwood had died. Link

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Death by media (and funeral home)

December 18, 2007 – 8:00 am

Thanks to an error made by a funeral home, the Bangor Daily News sent a woman to an early grave last week:
BANGOR, Maine - Anne E. Hathaway was somewhat shocked Friday when a friend called to see if she was still alive.
The Orono resident’s obituary had appeared in Friday’s Bangor Daily News. The [...]

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Death by media

November 27, 2007 – 8:00 am

A Nov. 23 Hot Box item about actors from the 1960s TV series Hogan’s Heroes incorrectly listed Richard Dawson (b. Nov. 20, 1932) as deceased. The Star regrets the error. Link

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Death by media

November 26, 2007 – 8:00 am

In the obituary for Gladys Jelley Hall, which appeared in Thursday’s Eagle, it was misstated that her former husband, James Jelley Sr., is deceased. Mr. Jelley is alive and lives in Pownal, Vt. Link

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Death by media

November 22, 2007 – 8:00 am

Correction: Because of a reporting error, a review of the new Boyz II Men album in yesterday’s Sidekick incorrectly said that Four Tops singer Levi Stubbs is deceased. Stubbs, who is alive, no longer tours with the Four Tops. Link

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Death by media

November 21, 2007 – 8:00 am

A Sunday Page One story about Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle’s career incorrectly referred to Mace Thurman as “the late” district judge. He is still living.

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Additional pain and suffering

November 12, 2007 – 8:00 am

We just came across this apology from October 16:
Some errors can’t be excused or explained. Our error in Tuesday’s editorial marking the death of Adam D. Quinn in Afghanistan last week is one such error. We mistakenly referred to Quinn as his brother, Asa, who is 19. We illustrated the editorial with a picture [...]

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