Courtesy of Simon of Bloggasm:
Because of a transcription error, a film review on Friday about “Redbelt” referred incorrectly to the character Sondra, played by Alice Braga. She is mouthy, not mousy. Link
An article headed Road and air chaos as snow blankets parts of country, page 12, April 7, said that sailors should have a working GPS, VHS radio and up-to-date charts; we meant VHF (very high frequency) radio. Link
It’s fine-tooth comb, not fine toothcomb (’Not our finest hour’. . .page 4 March 29). Link
The story headed “Li Ka-shing dismisses need for 10th terminal” on page A2 on Friday incorrectly stated Mr Li’s business empire spanned a string of Chinese imports. This should have read a string of Chinese ports.
Reader Jonathan spotted this typo in an online slideshow by Portfolio magazine (click for larger):
Last week’s Polish Happy Easter suffered a computer spelling spasm. It should have read: Wesolych Swiat Wielkanocnych.
An error in the typesetting process meant the Green Island Art Group’s report in last week’s Star referred to 2007 as a “lousy” year for the club. The year was, in fact, “busy” for club members. Link
Thanks, Geoffrey!
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
Thanks, [...]
AP moved a story yesterday about David Gregory’s new show on MSNBC, “Race for the White House.” But that’s not what an early version of the story called it:
Thanks, Tim!
Due to a reporting error, the Feb. 7 article “‘Porn Nation’ to present tonight” erroneously cited a pornographic website as the sexual addiction survey. The correct website is www.mysexsurvey.com. We regret the error. Link
For anyone interested, the incorrect URL is mentioned in the comments.
Thanks, Jake!
Reader Andrew spotted an amusing (and still uncorrected) error in a story published by the Evansville Courier & Press:
As you can imagine, the commenters are having some fun with it on the site.
A headline about an item in Warren Buffett’s annual letter in yesterday’s Deal Journal incorrectly referred to an “M&I” failure. The headline should have said “M&A,” or mergers and acquisitions, in reference to Mr. Buffett discussing an acquisition failure. Link
February 27, 2008 – 8:00 am
Ethiopia: In a Feb. 25 commentary about the Ethiopian military’s actions against civilians, a reference was made to “Somalia’s Darfur region.” Darfur is in Sudan. Also, Ethiopia was misspelled in the headline as Ethiopa. Link
February 27, 2008 – 8:00 am
“The Counterfeiters,” which won the Oscar for foreign-language film, is from Austria, not Australia, as was incorrectly reported in a story on Page D1 Monday. Link
February 26, 2008 – 8:00 am
We should have said that Sven-Goran Eriksson was trying to defuse, rather than diffuse, what we described as “a powder-keg moment”; he was trying to make things better, not worse (Eriksson begs fans to forget differences for only 60 seconds, page 5, Sport, February 9). Link
February 21, 2008 – 8:00 am
A Feb. 17 article about a man shot and killed by police in a Davisville-area park included misquoted information. Christian van Heiningen said that three weeks ago a man was flashing (exposing himself), in Oriole Park, not slashing himself. Link
February 20, 2008 – 8:00 am
An article in some editions on Monday about a New York City Transit employee’s deft use of the semicolon in a public service placard was less deft in its punctuation of the title of a book by Lynne Truss, who called the placard a “lovely example” of proper punctuation. The title of the book is [...]
February 15, 2008 – 8:00 am
Pfizer Inc. says that the extensive clinical trial data on its best-selling cholesterol drug Lipitor “do not establish a causal link between Lipitor and memory loss.” Due to a typographical error, Tuesday’s Health Journal column used the word casual instead of causal. Link
February 11, 2008 – 8:00 am
A graphic with a report on Afghanistan (page 8, February 6) should have said that 6,500 Afghans, rather than Afghanis, had been killed in 2007. An Afghani is a unit of currency. Link
February 8, 2008 – 8:00 am
Sleeping pills: An article in Monday’s Health section referred to the interaction between sleeping pills and alcohol as “more than just addictive.” It should have said the combination is more than just additive. In the same article, Greg Thompson, associate professor at USC’s School of Pharmacy, said that “with Benadryl, you probably couldn’t fit enough [...]
February 8, 2008 – 8:00 am
The story was corrected, but the headline’s a bit of a problem. Thanks, Jeff!
February 3, 2008 – 8:00 am
Marlon Brando would probably have flaunted his sexual conquests rather than flouted them, as we had it in our obituary of Christian Brando, page 31, January 30. Link
January 23, 2008 – 8:00 am
A story on Saturday’s Life cover incorrectly stated that the Rev. George Posthumus, pastor of Riverpark Bible Church in Fresno, teaches the Bible as the inherent word of God. He teaches the Bible as God’s word and inerrant. Link
January 21, 2008 – 8:00 am
Miscellany: ‘Whatever happened to the BMW booty?’ (News, last week) described those who salvaged cargo from the grounded MSC Napoli as ‘wreckers’. Wreckers lured vessels ashore before murdering their crews and plundering the cargo; clearly not the case here. ‘Although the government remains reticent to discuss …’ Reluctant, not reticent; ‘The truth is out: X-files [...]
