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Better fact check those letters

April 11, 2008 – 8:00 am

A letter published on Monday, titled “Perfect storm?” incorrectly stated that a school system in Kentucky has banned teaching about the Holocaust. That information is erroneous.

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Open your mouth and say jail

March 13, 2008 – 8:00 am

From The Daily Pulp:

I usually don’t point out typos and such in the local papers (regular Pulp readers have an idea why). Unless it’s funny. On page 13B of today’s Sun-Sentinel, there’s an AP story about the hallucinogenic plant salvia divinorum. The Sentinel’s subhead on the story:
“Bill makes possession of Saliva a felony.” Link
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Plagiarism at the Miami Herald

February 14, 2008 – 8:00 am

A correction:
A story about the Broward Sheriff’s Office’s semiannual awards ceremony, which appeared on Page 2B of the Broward edition on Feb. 6, included several paragraphs that should have been attributed to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Details and quotations from the Sun-Sentinel story, including the comments of civilian honoree John Clark, were used in The [...]

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Attention journalists everywhere: James Dobson is not a minister

May 19, 2006 – 8:01 am

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 [...]

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