Rural reality TV: In the Dec. 1 Calendar section, an article about reality TV series focusing on rural areas referred to the shows “American Hoggers” and “Lady Hoggers” as “American Joggers” and “Lady Joggers.” Link Report an error
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 [...]
Oregon death penalty: An article in the Nov. 23 Section A about Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber’s declaration on the death penalty said that his decision canceled the scheduled Dec. 6 execution of Gary Haugen and came a day after the Oregon Supreme Court had cleared the way for Haugen’s death by legal injection. It should [...]
Not a media error, but too good to pass up. A report from AP: A typo has led to the election of the wrong man to a finance board in Derby, Conn. James J. Butler was the highest vote-getter, winning 1,526 votes for the 10-member Board of Apportionment and Taxation, which monitors the town’s finances. [...]
Oh typo: Original was here. Thanks, Corey! Report an error
CORRECTION – An earlier version of this story referred to Cain having a ‘cedar-quality’ mustache. The proper term is ‘theater-quality.’ Link Thanks, James! Report an error
In a story on Saturday, Carterton Mayor Ron Mark was quoted as saying Wellington city had a “consultative” economy. He in fact said “consumptive”. Link Report an error
In our super-glossy supplement Kate: A Magical Year, we described the Duchess wearing a ‘pillarbox hat’. We should have said a ‘pillbox hat’. Link Report an error
Lose a letter, change the meaning (big time): (They’re missing the “l” in clocks…) Charles Apple has identified the culprit as the News-Herald of Willoughby, Ohio. He also says the error was in Friday’s paper. Thanks, @denverdiatribe! Report an error
A rare press release correction worth noting: Please note in the recent release (http://bit.ly/nBTdQx) distributed on behalf of Ernst & Young, the word “anthropomorphic” was incorrectly used in the first paragraph and should have been “anthropogenic”. Business Day in South Africa had a litle fun with this: A PRESS release was received at Business Day [...]
An amusing item from the Guardian’s Media Monkey: There’s a new mea culpa culture at the Financial Times. Weeks after the newspaper printed the word “Murdock” on a front-page sub headline about the News Corp boss’s appearance at the media select committee, the repercussions at the pink’un go on. Martin Dickson, the deputy editor, who [...]
A story in the Aug. 23 Spectator about the late Jack Layton’s language skills reported that he spoke Quebec French rather than Persian French. That should have been Parisian French. Thanks, Nicole! Report an error
Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, was incorrectly accused of speaking with “‘hypernasality’ – a constantly bunged-up timbre” in a commentary headlined Surgery can’t fix Ed’s voice (30 July, page 33). That should have been hyponasality. Report an error
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BRITAIN’S aircraft carriers and Harrier jump jets are being sold to the US Marine Corps and not the UN Marine Corps (page 7, June 16). Report an error
The article “Game on in Dickson’s twilight zone” (June 23, p4) incorrectly reported the 2011 Canberra Roleplaying and Games Festival Triptych theme as “immorality.” The theme was “immortality”. Report an error
A pull-quote accompanying the winter review of Haya Molnar’s book Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood m [sic] Communist Romania should have read “I wish the world would stop hating Jews because I’m still the same person I was before I knew I was Jewish.” In an unfortunate typo, the pull-quote that ran [...]
A correction to a story about MSNBC’s Ed Schultz and his recent outburst in which he called Laura Ingraham a “slut”: A typo in the first publication of this post had Schultz calling Ingraham a right wing “slug.” It was fixed. We regret the error. Link Report an error
An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of the fashion Web site Fashism as Fascisms. Link Report an error
From the Long Island Press: The story has been fixed, but no correction. Thanks, Liz! Report an error
The Obama/Osama errors keep rolling in. (Read my full collection here.) The South China Morning Post distinguished itself by making the mistake in a headline and then publishing an incorrect correction: In a headline on page A2 yesterday, the US president’s first name was erroneously given instead of that of Osama bin Laden. We apologise [...]
This screenshot of the Fox News website is making the rounds online (click for larger): Thanks, M-J! Report an error
An amusing typo from a Kansas City NBC station (click for better view): It’s been fixed, but no correction was added. Thanks, Alex! Report an error
Correction March 25: It turns out this is a Photoshopped cover. The magazine posted the below note on its website. I was one of many who were fooled, not that it excuses me in any way: They say there is no such thing as bad publicity, and we do love a Tails cover gone viral. [...]
Sunday Conversation: In the Calendar section elsewhere in this edition, the Sunday Conversation column with Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States, gives the release date for his book "The Bond" as April 1. Pacelle's book will be out April 5. Also, the article quotes Pacelle as saying, "People used to [...]
