“I can never tell the difference between a dunnock and a house sparrow,” wrote a contributor to Notes & Queries (page 20, G2, May 6). Neither could we. The photographs we used, and labelled as a dunnock and a house sparrow, were both of sparrows, female and male respectively. Link
A photograph of Gary Kerhoulas incorrectly appeared in yesterday’s Business section.
The Free Press regrets the error.
ON April 17 we published a report under the headline “Living Target” concerning Ger Dundon, a member of a Limerick family at the centre of a gangland feud.
In that report reference was made to James Cronin, a 20-year-old junior member of the McCarthy-Dundon gang, who was murdered and whose body was found half buried on [...]
From The Sun of Australia:
A photograph appeared on the front page of The Sun on January 16 featuring Dr Leanna Kent standing in front of the new Headspace Centre at Riverway. The Headspace Centre is youth-friendly clinical and social recovery service for 12 to 25-year-olds. Youths featured in the photo have no connection with the [...]
April 18, 2008 – 12:37 pm
Sports: An old photo of Boston outfielder Manny Ramirez was used on the baseball statistics page that did not match the caption information that ran with it. The photo showed him making a catch, while the cutline said he was arguing with an umpire. Link
THIS photo of State Liberal MP for Epping Greg Smith was taken by NSW’s senior crown prosecutor Mark Tedeschi, QC, and is part of his Legal Chameleons Exhibition at the Justice and Police Museum in Phillip St, Sydney. The photo may already be familiar to some of our readers as it inadvertently appeared in last [...]
A caption mistakenly identified Linda Crossley-Hauch as the woman in a photograph published with a story Saturday about school bullying. The Free Press regrets the error.
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
A series of front-page photographs of local soldiers killed in Iraq, published Friday, mistakenly included a photo of Marine Cpl. Ted “T.J.” Cothran instead of a photo of his brother, Marine Lance Cpl. Derrick J. Cothran. Derrick Cothran was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2006. T.J. Cothran, while also serving in Iraq, [...]
A March 15 photo caption incorrectly identified the man in the above photo as Jonathan Black. It is actually a photo of Toronto law student Chris O’Connor. Mr. O’Connor was in no way connected to the incident allegedly involving Black. The Star regrets the error and apologizes to Mr. O’Connor. Link
Beatrice Freeman, whose obituary was published yesterday, is pictured above. The photo of a woman with a camera that appeared with the obituary showed her sister. Link
David Paterson is pictured above in the Hempstead High School 1969 yearbook. A photo yesterday incorrectly showed another student in some editions. Link
A HOUSE pictured in a photograph accompanying an article in The Weekend Australian last Saturday (“He made just $3000 in 13 years but accused fraudster finds $5m for bail”, page 1) was incorrectly identified as belonging to Michael John Milne. The occupants of the house in the photograph have no connection with Mr Milne. The [...]
A report from the Press Gazette:
The Eastern Daily Press has apologised after confusing the Bishop of Norwich with serial killer Steve Wright, known as the “Suffolk strangler”.
The paper printed a letter from Rupert Read of the Eastern Region Green Party calling for brothels to be closed following the Ipswich murders saying: “Surely that is the [...]
Mar. 6–A story on Page A1 Wednesday about lawsuits involving the Dunmore home-building family was accompanied by a photograph of a man incorrectly identified as Sidney D. Dunmore. The person pictured was his father, Sidney B. Dunmore, who is not involved in the lawsuits. Link
Because of an incorrect photo provided by the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, a Tuesday Express-News story about a slaying suspect was accompanied by a photograph of a San Antonio man who was not connected in any way with the slaying. The story, ‘Transient’s tale ends in arrest,’ was published on Page 1A. The photo [...]
February 29, 2008 – 8:00 am
James Wakeford was granted statutory permission to use medicinal marijuana by the federal government on June 9, 1999. A photograph of Mr. Wakeford was inappropriately used to illustrate a Jan. 14 column on compassion clubs, which until a Federal Court ruling in January provided marijuana to patients outside the law. Mr. Wakeford remains opposed to [...]
February 29, 2008 – 8:00 am
The picture used on page 5 of times2 yesterday was incorrectly captioned as Ronald Harwood with his wife Natasha. It was, in fact, Mr Harwood with the actress Amy Adams. Our apologies.
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 [...]
February 15, 2008 – 8:00 am
Nagin photo clarified: A photo in some Metro sections Wednesday showed a laughing Mayor Ray Nagin pointing an M4 rifle at Chief of Police Warren Riley at a news conference to announce new crime-fighting equipment purchased by the New Orleans Police Department. A review of a video taken at the event shows that the mayor [...]
February 14, 2008 – 8:00 am
A CAPTION in some editions of yesterday’s Daily News incorrectly identified a photograph of Detective Sgt. Fred Santoro of the NYPD’s Organized Crime Investigations Division (above) as Frank Santoro, a defendant in a Bronx murder case. The News regrets the error.
February 7, 2008 – 8:00 am
An incorrect photograph was published on Page 2B Monday with a continuation of the Streetwise column on Metrorail’s North Corridor plan. Because of a newsroom production error, a picture of the late Jose Souto of Rowland Coffee accompanied the article instead of County Commissioner Javier Souto, whose photograph can be seen here. Link
January 30, 2008 – 8:00 am
A Jan. 27 Style & Arts article about photographer Jill Greenberg incorrectly described a primate named Mala as a chimp. Mala is a baboon. Also, Greenberg’s photo in the February issue of GQ is of a lamb, not a llama. Link
January 28, 2008 – 8:00 am
DUE to an error, the photograph of Mr Jimmy Guerin used to illustrate our report on page 5 last week under the headline: Fury Over Gilligan’s EUR50,000 Book Deal was incorrectly captioned as being John Gilligan, the convicted drugs criminal whose photograph also appeared on the same page. We wish to apologise to Mr Guerin [...]
January 28, 2008 – 8:00 am
On January 11, The Press ran an article on failed financier Darryn Hunt. The photo that accompanied it was not of Hunt but his brother, Barry Hunt. The Press apologises for the error.
January 25, 2008 – 8:00 am
A photo on Page 3 yesterday showed Conrad Veidt in “The Man Who Laughs,” a 1928 silent film, not Heath Ledger as the Joker. Link
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