In a piece sketching the Leveson inquiry, we incorrectly stated that the Sun newspaper sent a reporter to the home of a junior counsel to the inquiry. The Sun did not send a reporter to the barrister’s home. We apologise for the error and any suggestion that there was an intention by the Sun to [...]
AN article on 16 August reported that Manchester United footballer Tom Cleverley had begged a girl for sex after meeting her at a night club, even though he was dating a Page 3 model. In fact, entirely unknown to the girl it now transpires that the man involved, who looked like Tom Cleverley, was impersonating [...]
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 [...]
While the world is focused on the actions of the now-defunct News of the World (and possibly other British tabloids), on Friday eight British newspapers issued apologies for outrageous, prominent and defamatory front pages and articles that falsely painted Christopher Jefferies as a murderer. The Tabloid Watch blog has an excellent overview of the issue [...]
A report from the Press Gazette: The Sun has changed a picture caption after publishing a manipulated image of Libyan rebels beneath three pro-Gadaffi fighter jets. The picture was used in a Sun story headlined: “We beg the West for no-fly zone before Gadaffi’s jets destroy us” on 15 March, which was about a rebel [...]
At least five British newspapers and one broadcaster used a fake photo of a dead Bin Laden in their coverage. Tabloid Watch has a gallery showing each paper, and here’s the example from the Mirror: The offending papers include the Sun, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Times of London. The broadcaster was Sky News. Here’s [...]
OUR article of 9 October 2009 falsely alleged that throughout a 23 day hunger strike, Mr Parameswaran Subramanyam secretly ate takeaway burgers when dishonestly claiming he was on hunger strike in support of Sri Lankan Tamils, in a campaign which was policed at considerable expense and caused the police to waste public money. We now [...]
IN yesterday’s edition of the Irish Sun, we published a story about an arrest made by gardai in the investigation into the murder of innocent Noel Crawford. The photograph accompanying the story was stated to be a picture of the late Mr Crawford but it was in fact an image of the late Limerick criminal [...]
In an article on February 3, we implied two thirds of Haitians drank goats’ blood while practising voodoo. We are happy to make clear this is not the case. Link Thanks, MacGuffin! Report an error
An article on 6 October last year about Keith Floyd’s funeral wrongly stated that Nancy Jones had gatecrashed the wake, had acted in an insensitive way and that she was ushered out. We now accept that our information was incorrect. Nancy Jones, Keith Floyd’s eldest daughter, was expected and welcomed at the event and was [...]
THE SUN today unreservedly apologises to Nicklas Bendtner after his stunning treble sent the Gunners storming into the Champions League quarter-finals. Yesterday we may have inadvertently given the impression that Bendtner could not hit a cow’s Arsenal with a banjo. But last night the giant striker’s brilliant Turn to Page 79 From Back Page display [...]
AN article on 10 August 2009 “Terror case doc works in casualty” reported that, following his court acquittal on terrorist charges, Dr Asha was working for the NHS. Some readers may have understood the article to mean that Dr Asha is a terrorist suspect and a threat to national security. This was not our intention [...]
A report on December 12 stated that Colin Kazim-Richards had been transfer-listed by Fenerbahce due to his involvement in a sex scandal. We now accept that this agency report was untrue and that he was not involved in any such scandal. The player has since happily left the club by agreement for football reasons. We [...]
FURTHER to our article about increased security at Coronation Street's studios for their live 50th anniversary episode (December 9), we would like to make clear that while cast and crew were subject to full body searches, there was no specific threat from Al-Qaeda as we reported. We apologise for the misunderstanding and are happy to [...]
Our 5 November report on an alleged incident in a Manchester nightclub involving two beauty queens was wrongly illustrated with a photograph of Sarah Lawrence wearing a “blue angel” outfit. We would like to emphasise that Sarah Lawrence was in no way involved in the incident and apologise to her for the distress and embarrassment. [...]
On 29 March and 1 April last year we reported that Mr Patel was an evil terrorist who had been jailed for his part in a transatlantic jet terror plot. While he had been convicted under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act of possessing material that might be useful to terrorists, the court accepted that [...]
IN a report on May 5, 2009, headlined “Riddle of Boruc, the brunette and his hair straighteners”, we claimed that Artur Boruc had brought two girls to the house he shares with partner Sara Mannei and had sex with one of them. We published a picture which we said showed him straightening one of the [...]
The Sun (U.K.) recently reported in a front page story that several famous Jews were being targeted by Muslim extremists. Then, on Tuesday, it published an article noting that it had fallen for a hoax: A PHONEY terrorism “expert” has confessed to duping newspapers and a senior politician. Glen Jenvey has admitted making up stories [...]
SURREY Police have not blamed gipsies for an attack on their force helicopter, no staff in their operations rooms were threatened by gipsies and no gipsy site was being targeted for a raid as we reported on May 14. We apologise for the mistakes and are happy to set the record straight. Link Thanks, Telsa! [...]
BBC2′s Classic Goldie showed the drum ‘n’ bass artist’s foray into orchestral music. And not old clips of the Blue Peter dog getting jiggy with Peter Purves’s leg. Report an error
I thought I’d already posted this remarkable 2005 apology/correction for the Sun (U.K.), but it doesn’t show up in my archives. And since two people sent it to me yesterday, it deserves recognition: IN an article published on The Sun website on January 27 under the headline ‘Gollum joker killed in live rail horror’ we [...]
FURTHER to our preview of last night’s game published in Thursday July 9th edition, we wish to clarify that Ian Bermingham did not give the quote attributed to him. The level of wages stated in the headline for Mr Bermingham was inaccurate. We regret any distress caused and accept that Mr Bermingham had declined to [...]
Eamon Dunphy’s daughter Colette would like us to point out that her son Braiden, five, is seriously ill but not terminally ill as stated in yesterday’s article on pages 16 and 17. We are happy to clarify this. Report an error
We refer to yesterday’s article “More Low Blows From Warren”. We would like to make clear that Frank Warren has promoted over 2,000 fights and has always paid boxers their purses as obliged by the British Boxing Board of Control. The litigation with Joe Calzaghe involved a claim for “profit share”. Sports Network Ltd has [...]
A report from the Independent (UK): Jacob Rees-Mogg, the tweedy Conservative candidate for the new parliamentary seat of North-East Somerset, has been caught red-handed trying to rip off the Sun newspaper in his latest campaign leaflet. Rees-Mogg – who, as the son of the former Times editor Lord Rees-Mogg, should perhaps know better – admitted [...]
