See my previous post about the mistakes made by the Daily Mail, the Sun and others. After being criticized and mocked for publishing an online article that declared Amanda Knox had been found guilty of murder, the Daily Mail published a story to explain what happened. The paper apologized for the mistake, and also noted [...]
Update Oct. 5, 2011: The Daily Mail apologized for its mistake. Read more here. One of the ways news organizations prepare for a big news event is to produce some canned copy. Write it up ahead of time, and just use it when ready. Such was the case for the Amanda Knox verdict, which came [...]
Given the fact that journalists have been mixing up the names of President Obama and Osama Bin Laden for a good three years or more, it’s no surprise that the coverage of last night’s huge news included many of these slips. Here’s a sampler of Obama/Osama errors. This, from a local Fox affiliate, may be [...]
One U.K. television station and U.K. eight newspapers have published/aired apologies and paid damages after they falsely reported that a child’s birthday party had spun wildly out of control due to its promotion on Facebook. In reality, “only very minor damage was caused”during the party, it was never promoted on Facebook, no alcohol was served, [...]
We have, since August of last year, been cataloging the apologies offered to Morien Jones, a UK man who was wrongly and hurtfully portrayed in a series of media reports back in 2006. Jones has managed to extract apologies from a large number of UK media outlets, and they keep coming. We salute his dedication [...]
