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About a chicken

February 18, 2008 – 8:00 am

The Semantics column about chickens in Oviedo on Page J2 of the Feb. 10 Sunday Seminole section contained a misspelling of the name of the TownHouse Restaurant in Oviedo. The caption with a photograph of a chicken accompanying the column also reported incorrectly where the photo was taken. The chicken was in an employee-of-the-month parking [...]

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Happy birth… our condolences

January 21, 2008 – 8:00 am

The “happy birthday!” feature on Page E2 of Tuesday’s Good Living: Health & Fitness section mistakenly included rocker Ronnie Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd fame. Van Zant died in an airplane crash in 1977. Link

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Additional pain and suffering

December 7, 2007 – 8:00 am

A photograph on Page C4 of Saturday’s Central Florida Business section with an article about Pauline C. Stevens, who died Nov. 24, mistakenly was of Bernice Knoll, who died Nov. 25. The photos are correctly identified at right.

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Orlando Sentinel sees corrections rise at “frightening” pace; the quality revolution

October 30, 2007 – 5:00 am

Information that can’t be trusted is not less valuable; it’s worthless.
Those words were written by Orlando Sentinel public editor Manning Pynn in an important column published on Sunday. (Romenesko spotted it.)
Pynn was moved to write the column after noticing a spike in the number of corrections over recent months. “In the past [...]

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