Many of you called to razz us about an embarrassing typo in Friday’s paper. A San Diego drug “wherehouse”? We could blame it on a rogue wherewolf in the newsroom, or even too-tight underwhere, but wear would that get us? Best just to admit it: Our mental hardwhere was on the fritz when we let [...]
We got it mostly wrong in Thursday’s paper when we used the incorrect Truth-O-Meter on Michele Bachmann’s Enhanced Coverage LinkingMichele Bachmann’s claim that “President Obama stole over $500 billion out of Medicare to switch it over to Obamacare.” PolitiFact rated the claim Mostly False. Report an error
Obviously our front page Monday did not make the honor roll. On a story about college degrees – of all things – we misspelled the word “tassels.” Report an error
If you’ve tried making James Yant’s carrot cake and it didn’t come out right, you’ve got the perfect excuse: The recipe that appeared in Monday’s Hernando Times should have called for 2 cups of flour, and the icing should be made with only one stick of margarine. Yant, who concocted the cake 20 years ago [...]
This was on the front page today’s St. Petersburg Times: Bill O’Reilly has not accused President Barack Obama of racism. An article in Sunday’s Perspective section about the National Association of Black Journalists incorrectly included the Fox newscaster in a list of commentators who have publicly accused the president of racism. Click on this image [...]
The name of the former Syracuse football player is Dick Easterly. We landed on the other side of the compass in a story on Tuesday’s etc. page. Report an error
Our obsessive cataloging of corrections occasionally enables us to spot a pattern. Whether it’s the failure of newspapers to identify someone they initially misidentified in a photo, or the inability of newspapers to accurately report on, well, newspapers, we sometimes feel as though we’re listening to a broken record. Such was the case when we [...]
