An apology from the Express Tribune of Pakistan: We regret the inadvertent publication of the article titled “Shia-Sunni reconciliation” by Saleem Ali in our print edition of December 9, 2011 and subsequently on our website. The article was published without exercising proper editorial judgment. We apologise for the mistake and to our readers whose religious [...]
An SMS published in this column on Wednesday, November 23, contained comments that reflected adversely on the personal and professionalreputation of Central Highlands Regional Council employee, Luke Lankowski. This particular SMS was published in error. The Central QueenslandNews does not in any way endorse these comments. The Central Queensland News unreservedly retracts the comments and [...]
A retraction from AP: The Associated Press has withdrawn the 12th and 13th Ld-Writethrus of its story about the Natalie Wood investigation. The story quoted Christopher Walken telling Washington, D.C. sports talk radio station ESPN980 about his recollections from the night that Wood died. The station now says that it was a hoax involving a [...]
Here’s a retraction/apology from Daniel Avila, a policy advisor for Marriage and Family at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, for this recent column by him in the Boston Pilot: Statements made in my column, ‘Some fundamental questions on same-sex attraction’ of October 28, do not represent the position of the United States Conference [...]
An advisory issued by Reuters on Friday: Please be advised that the Oct 27 Moscow story headlined “Chechen teen diary a bitter tale of bombs and survival” has been withdrawn because, though it included original reporting, it is too similar to a piece already published by The Guardian on the same subject to be appropriate [...]
In July 2010 and thereafter, we reported on two local pain management clinics that were raided by federal agents and were being investigated for being “pill mills.” In connection with those reports both on the air and on our website, we reported that George H.G. Hall, a retired executive and now college professor and practicing [...]
In Eugene McGee’s article on Monday, August 15, 2011, headed ‘DIRT ON THE SOLE OF THEIR SHOE’ concerning the CCCC’s decision concerning Wexford goalkeeperAnthony Masterson, it was incorrectly stated that the above-mentioned CCCC members were involved in deliberations which led to that decision. In fact, these CCCC members had no involvement whatsoever in such deliberations. [...]
THE Australian yesterday published an opinion piece by Glenn Milne (“PM a lost cause for warring unions”, Page 14) that included assertions about the conduct of the Prime Minister. The Australian acknowledges these assertions are untrue. The Australian also acknowledges no attempt was made by anyone employed by, or associated with, The Australian to contact [...]
A notice from the AP: The mayor of Vilnius acknowledged Tuesday distributing a deliberately altered picture to The Associated Press and other news organizations intended to dramatize his anti-parking campaign, an image that then was published in newspapers around world. The AP withdrew the photo, transmitted on Aug. 3, and notified its customers of the [...]
David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who launched a new column for Reuters this week. After his debut piece hit the wires and the web, Johnston realized he’d made a major mistake. The premise of his column was wrong. Reuters soon withdrew the piece and Johnston took the highly unusual step of [...]
The Hockey News deeply regrets and retracts the publication of its June 9, 2011 story entitled: “Source: Craig Leipold to acquire additional 40 percent of Minnesota Wild if minority owner Philip Falcone forced out.” The story appeared on thehockeynews.com. The story was erroneous concerning the proceedings of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and [...]
Psychology Today has apparently yanked a blog post by London School of Economics evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa that wondered why black women were considered less attractive than other women. The post, titled “Why Are Black Women Rated Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women, But Black Men Are Rated Better Looking Than Other Men?” was posted [...]
IN our issue of May 19, 2011, we reported that South Tyneside Councillor David Potts, who resigned from the Tory Party in January but remains a councillor, had contacted Labour Council Leader Iain Malcolm requesting that he be allowed to become a Labour councillor and that his plea had been rejected. Mr Potts has informed [...]
On April 28th, The Coast published an article online and in print, regarding Dr. Stan Kutcher. In that article, The Coast referenced, without limitation or criticism, statements to the effect that, Dr. Kutcher, being one of the authors of a research paper, distorted the outcome measures and essentially lied. The Coast retracts those statements and [...]
This retraction and apology appeared in several of the papers owned by Canada's Sun Media: On March 9 we published a graphic titled "Wind turbines: friend or foe?" The graphic wrongly attributed claims to the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CANWEA) that wind turbines are harmful to human health. CANWEA's position is that the balance of [...]
On Thursday we published a graphic titled "Wind turbines: friend or foe?" The graphic wrongly attributed claims to the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CANWEA) that wind turbines are harmful to human health. CANWEA's position is that the balance of expert scientific and medical information to date clearly indicates there is no direct link between wind [...]
In our Jan. 20, 2011, edition, we published a story, “Nightmare at Troy horse ranch,” about allegations of abuse and neglect of rare Lusitano and Andalusian horses at the Carpe Diem Farms, LLC ranch owned by Byrde Lynn Hill and the lawsuit filed against Carpe Diem Farms and Ms. Hill by former ranch managers [...]
CNN has retracted a story dealing with questions surrounding the treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning at the Marine Corp Base Quantico in Virginia. Pentagon spokesman Col. David Lapan said Tuesday that there is no investigation into the decision last week to put Manning, who has been charged with leaking classified government documents to Wikileaks, on [...]
Earlier today the good folks at Retraction Watch drew my attention to the fact that, after having already issued five corrections to the piece, Salon finally stood up and retracted a 2005 article by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I noted the corrections on this site in 2005 when they began appearing on Salon's corrections page [...]
Last summer, two respected medical journalists — Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky — launched a lovely blog called Retraction Watch. It's dedicated to "Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process." I wrote about the site in my weekly CJR column and have been watching it highlight some notable and amusing retractions. This week [...]
On September 5, 2010, a column by Ezra Levant contained false statements about George Soros and his conduct as a young teenager in Nazi-occupied Hungary. Upon receiving a letter of complaint from Mr. Soros’s legal counsel on September 13, 2010, Sun Media Corporation always intended to publish a retraction and apology for this column. Despite [...]
The Morning Star wishes to make clear that the reference to Care UK in the lead story on page 5 yesterday (Elderly go hungry on hospital wards) was entirely erroneous and unjustified. The company mentioned was in no way involved in the incident reported. In fact, Care UK is independently assessed as being among the [...]
The Feb 1 story headlined “Backdoor taxes to hit middle class” is wrong and has been withdrawn. The story said lower-income families will pay more under tax provisions scheduled to expire Dec 31. The Obama administration’s budget calls for the extension of those tax provisions for households earning less than $250,000. There will be no [...]
An error was inadvertently committed in the report by our Special Correspondent published in the front page of The Hindu under the headline “Two editors of TV 5 arrested in Hyderabad.†The report wrongly stated that TV9 was among the three channels booked by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) in connection with the telecast of [...]
Canwest News Service described Helmut Oberlander as a “Nazi collaborator” in a story about a Nov. 18 court ruling that ordered the federal Cabinet to reconsider revoking his citizenship. Neither the Canadian government nor the Federal Court has stated that Oberlander was a collaborator. A judge ruled in 2000 that Oberlander worked, lived, and travelled [...]
