An article on page 1 of Tuesday’s A section incorrectly described obstetrician-gynecologist Albert Triana’s policy on accepting obese patients. He does accept obese patients. His practice does not decline patients based on weight, he said Tuesday. Link Thanks, Tiffany! Report an error
An article on Page 4 of Wednesday's Local section about an IRS inquiry into the Miccosukee Tribe's gambling profits was accompanied by an incorrect photograph of former Miccosukee tribal chairman Billy Cypress. The incorrect photograph depicted the late Billy L. Cypress of the Seminole Tribe, who founded the museum that holds the largest collection of [...]
A headline on Page 5 of Tuesday's Local section incorrectly described Anthony Genovese and his connection to a sex slavery case. Genovese is not implicated in the case. Further, the headline wrongly stated that officials said Genovese capitalized on the state's lax oversight to open bars and strip clubs in Palm Beach County. Here's the [...]
An incorrect photo appeared on Page 3 of Thursday’s Local section with an article about a man accused of chopping his girlfriend’s fingers with a machete. The correct photo of Cristhian Josue Ramos-Murillo, 21, the accused attacker, is shown here. Link Was someone misidentified as the accused? And if so, why aren’t they being offered [...]
A letter on Tuesday’s editorial page, “Impeach ‘em both,” incorrectly stated that President Nixon was impeached. In fact, Nixon resigned before his impeachment went before the full House of Representatives. Report an error
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. Report an error
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.” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
