CMU professor Kiron Skinner, recently named to GOP presidential candidate and former House speaker Newt Gingrich’s national security team, says she was misquoted in a story Monday about her appointment. She said her quote was: “I’ve been a supporter of Speaker Gingrich for a long time because I’ve seen him in numerous professional circumstances…” The [...]
A review of the memoir “Growing Up With Clemente” in the Post-Gazette April 12 should not have said that some material in the book seemed to have been “cribbed” from a biography of Roberto Clemente written by another author.The reviewer did not substantiate his impression before expressing it in the review, and a subsequent inquiry [...]
Robert Reilly, who was injured Saturday night when a state police car rammed his vehicle in Monroeville, never was a suspect in the robbery that evening of the Golden Corral restaurant in Monroeville. Mr. Reilly and his passenger were hospitalized after the trooper set up a roadblock intended for the actual suspect. Police eventually arrested [...]
On the first page of the Business section of Sunday’s Post-Gazette we printed an article about Stanley Druckenmiller and his company Duquesne Capital Management. The article included headlines that suggested that the funds which Mr. Druckenmiller and Duquesne Capital manage had suffered significant losses and that Mr. Druckenmiller had been “sacked” and “took it on [...]
Sen. Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. A headline on a story published Oct. 31, 2008 described him as a native son of Kenya. Link Report an error
In an election article published Oct. 30, 2008, Monaca’s Tom Pranskey said he was having a difficult time convincing friends and family, including his daughter, to vote for Sen. Barack Obama because the Democratic presidential candidate is black. The daughter disputes her father’s characterization, saying that she’s voting against Mr. Obama because she always votes [...]
