Salon’s online corrections page used to offer links to corrections going back several years. This was good and rather unique thing. Not anymore. At some (recent) point, the site’s corrections page was changed to remove all current and archival corrections. The page now contains boilerplate text informing readers that corrections are placed on the offending [...]
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 [...]
The May 17 Broadsheet post “Miss USA Stripping Scandal: How Shocking!” incorrectly stated that Miss Nevada Katie Rees lost her title after the emergence of a “hardcore pornographic photo shoot.” The photos in question were not actually pornographic. The story has been corrected. Link Report an error
The Jan. 25 article “Is the President Panicking” originally stated that Fox News led the charge against Bill Clinton in the ’94 midterm elections. Fox News did not come into being until 1996. The story has been corrected. Link Report an error
The Nov. 12 article “Public Bathroom Dilemma: Paper or Air?” misstated how much energy is consumed by hand dryers. The corrected story now says that “5.7 million kilowatt-hours of electricity [are] used every day — enough power to run an estimated 197,000 homes a day.” The following explains how author Rebecca Clarren reached the new [...]
