Regret the Error » us weekly http://www.regrettheerror.com Mistakes Happen Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:25:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Us Weekly falls for fake Sarah Palin quotes about Christina Aguilera http://www.regrettheerror.com/2011/02/14/us-weekly-falls-for-fake-sarah-palin-quotes-about-christina-aguilera/ http://www.regrettheerror.com/2011/02/14/us-weekly-falls-for-fake-sarah-palin-quotes-about-christina-aguilera/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:00:13 +0000 Craig Silverman http://www.regrettheerror.com/?p=12709

Oopsies…our bad!

On Wednesday, along with several other media outlets, UsMagazine.com erroneously published a story attributing quotes to Sarah Palin; in a supposed radio interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, the former Republican Vice Presidential nominee was quoted bashing Christina Aguilera's botched rendition of the National Anthem at Sunday's Super Bowl.

In response, Palin, 46, set the record straight to UsMagazine.com on Thursday. "I had no interview with Sean [Hannity] and I have never bashed Christina," Alaska's former governor tells Us.

"In fact," Palin adds, "I've defended her by telling folks to back off the criticism of her mistake." (Aguilera, 30, famously flubbed the lyrics to the patriotic song while performing at Cowboys Stadium.)

Shortly after Thursday's story was published, Us learned that the Palin-Hannity interview never took place, and that the quotes were the invention of a website. We sincerely regret and apologize for the error.

Palin continued of the false report: "I was telling my kids right after her national anthem issue blew up that people needed to lay off her mistake. And then to read to that I condemned her?" Link

As Gossip Cop and Stinky Journalism have reported, the quotes were from a satirical piece on SuperTuesdayNews.com. Stinky Journalism also noted that the Us Weekly piece was also picked up by Time.

]]> http://www.regrettheerror.com/2011/02/14/us-weekly-falls-for-fake-sarah-palin-quotes-about-christina-aguilera/feed/ 0 An end to an affair that never was http://www.regrettheerror.com/2008/11/12/an-end-to-an-affair-that-never-was/ http://www.regrettheerror.com/2008/11/12/an-end-to-an-affair-that-never-was/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:00:56 +0000 Craig Silverman http://www.regrettheerror.com/?p=6425 In our November 3 issue, we suggested that the actress Kelly Reilly was having a relationship with Guy Ritchie.
It is now clear from the further information that we have received that Ms. Reilly is engaged and there is and has been no romantic relationship between Kelly Reilly and Guy Ritchie. We apologize for any embarrassment caused to Ms. Reilly in our original report. Link

]]> http://www.regrettheerror.com/2008/11/12/an-end-to-an-affair-that-never-was/feed/ 0 Porn star mistake at Us http://www.regrettheerror.com/2005/04/15/porn-star-mistake-at-us/ http://www.regrettheerror.com/2005/04/15/porn-star-mistake-at-us/#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:00:00 +0000 Craig Silverman http://regrettheerrorbook.com/uncategorized/porn-star-mistake-at-us/ Tucked away on page 11 of the April 4 issue of Us Weekly is a correction that’s minor in size yet massive in impact. Basically, the weekly celeb mag branded an unsuspecting — and still unknown — woman as a porn star. And when we say “branded” we mean that quite literally, as Us slapped a big pink circle on her torso that screams the words “PORN STAR.”If you haven’t already guessed what the problem is, let us fill you in: the woman pictured with Charlie Sheen is not a porn star. To top it off, Us doesn’t seem to know who she is, except that she is not, as they called her, Ginger Lynn Allan “…the former adult-film star, now in her early 40s.” The image and correction are below.

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