A post on the Guardian’s Comment is Free site suffered from some poor — but amusing! — photo sourcing: The caption really makes the error all the more wonderful. The photo has been fixed, though a correction was not placed on the story. Instead, a Guardian employee posted a corrective comment: There were of course [...]
IN Saturday”s Liverpool Echo we reported on a fork lift truck driver who tested positive for drugs after crashing into a worker at the Jaguar Land Rover site, in Halewood. The report stated the incident happened just 24 hours after Graham Begley died in an accident at the factory and included a picture of Mr [...]
A photo published on page A6 on Saturday incorrectly identified a drunk Toast Martinborough reveller who turned a firehose on the crowd. The man who appeared in Masterton District Court was Daniel Michael Lockyer. However the photograph published was in fact that of Lachlan McHattie, a Masterton builder who runs Lockstar Construction. Mr McHattie has [...]
A PICTURE accompanying our story about window cleaner Graeme Dust,who was jailed for six years for trying to have his wife NIna killed, was not of her but was, in fact, a photograph of a person with no involvement in the case. A normally reliable agency supplied the photograph of a lady we have since [...]
Looks like the folks at the South China Morning Post aren’t boxing fans: That’s George Foreman, not Joe Frazier. Ouch. I’ll update with the correction when it runs. Update Nov. 10 9:54 pm: The correction: The uncaptioned photograph published on C8, the Joe Frazier obituary page, in yesterday’s Sports section was of George Foreman. We [...]
An obituary of the film-maker George Kuchar was illustrated with a photograph that did not show him, as the caption said, but his twin brother, Mike (20 October, page 35). Link Report an error
IN yesterday’s report concerning three fatal road traffic accidents, a photograph purportedly of Aoife Ivers, who was injured in an accident near Portumna, was in fact of her friend, Gemma Hayde. Ms Hayde was not involved in the accident. We are happy to correct the position and apologise for any confusion caused. A picture in [...]
In yesterday’s Page 7 story about Jeremy Clarkson, a picture of his wife, Frances Clarkson, was wrongly captioned as Alexandra Hall, the presenter’s former wife. Report an error
ON PAGE 13 of last week’s edition of the Cornish Guardian (October 19) a court report concerning former Fifteen restaurant apprentice chef Kieran Charles Leverett was accompanied by a photograph captioned with his name. It has been pointed out that the person in the photograph was not the defendant but a Mr Jake Joynes. We [...]
In yesterday’s report of proceedings before Belfast Crown Court concerning a man accused of a driving offence arising from an incident in which Anita Russell was seriously injured, the photograph purporting to depict Ms Russell was in fact another woman who is not connected with those or any other criminal proceedings. We apologise for any [...]
In yesterday’s Western Daily Press we carried a photograph with a caption referring the the Welsh mezzo-soprano Katharine Jenkins. Unfortunately a technical error failed to update the picture on the page before it was printed. We would like to apologise to Miss Jenkins for any embarrassment caused. The printed picture showed Conservative MP for Hendon [...]
We have been asked to clarify that an unidentified individual in the background of a photograph featuring Alan and Laura Johnson was not the Metropolitan police officer under investigation over allegations regarding an inappropriate relationship (Picture caption: Former shadow chancellor Alan Johnson with his wife Laura, who is alleged to have had an affair with [...]
A photo on Page E4 on Sunday was misidentified. The photo identified as 9/11 victim Paul Beatini was actually Scott McGovern, also a victim of the attack. *Correction Sept. 8, 2011: The original headline on this post referred to “9/1″ instead of “9/11.” I regret the error. Report an error
A story with the headline ‘Lingerie buyer at BTs settles case over dismissal’ published in yesterday’s Irish Independent was accompanied by a photograph captioned ‘Former Brown Thomas buyer Mary Mullin leaves the High Court in Dublin’. In fact, the photograph was that of Ms Aoife Newton, solicitor for IBEC. We are happy to clarify this [...]
Our article of May 7 2011 “8st kick-boxing WPC scares off thugs” included a photograph said to be that of Richard Chadwick who was convicted of an attack on six people in Leeds, including bursting into one home and threatening to kill the occupant’s baby. The photograph was actually of Mark O’Brien who has no [...]
No, Afghan President Hamid Karzai was not in the Canadian province of New Brunswick this week to mourn the death of a former beer executive: It’s been fixed. Report an error
Correction: Because of an editing error, a story about Boston police Officer David C. Williams, who is facing discipline for lying to department investigators, was accompanied by a photo of the wrong officer in early editions of yesterday’s Metro section. Williams is shown here. Link Report an error
Guardian articles about Amina Abdallah Araf al Omari, a blogger on the subject of Middle East unrest, carried photographs purporting to show the blog’s author. In fact, the person pictured was Jelena Lecic, who lives in the UK. We apologise to her. An account of how these pictures came to be used appears in today’s [...]
This has been going around already but can’t pass without a mention. In a report about Sarah Palin, Fox News mistakenly used an image of Tina Fey pretending to be Sarah Palin: Image via @jaredbkeller. Time magazine got a statement from Fox News: This past Sunday during ‘America’s News Headquarters,’ a graphics error was made [...]
In an article headlined “Customs bust EUR11m illegal fuel factory” on page 23 of yesterday’s Irish Daily Mirror, we featured a photograph of a truck with an Emo oil logo. A spokeswoman for the fuel company has asked us to clarify Emo had absolutely no involvement in the seizure or subsequent searches. The truck featured [...]
A Reuters error noted by Reuters’ own Good, Bad & Ugly blog: Report an error
A picture caption on Tuesday with an article in some editions about the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Gala misidentified a designer standing by the actress Penelope Cruz. He is Oscar de la Renta, not Giorgio Armani. Link Report an error
A report from TrekMovie.com: Yesterday [May 5] a German news station had a major image fail. While covering the US Navy SEALs operation to kill Osama bin Laden they mistook a Star Trek fan-made emblem for the Maquis for the actual SEAL Team Six emblem. Check it out below. On Thursday the German news channel [...]
A report from the Press Gazette: The Sun has changed a picture caption after publishing a manipulated image of Libyan rebels beneath three pro-Gadaffi fighter jets. The picture was used in a Sun story headlined: “We beg the West for no-fly zone before Gadaffi’s jets destroy us” on 15 March, which was about a rebel [...]
At least five British newspapers and one broadcaster used a fake photo of a dead Bin Laden in their coverage. Tabloid Watch has a gallery showing each paper, and here’s the example from the Mirror: The offending papers include the Sun, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Times of London. The broadcaster was Sky News. Here’s [...]
