Warren Buffett said Berkshire Hathaway Inc. shares might not be the best investment for some investors. A Money & Investing article in some editions Monday incorrectly stated that he said the company wasn’t a good investment opportunity. Link
Previous one here.
A Russian Revolution-era banner pictured in a photo gallery and timeline published on WSJ.com read “Freedom! Equality! Brotherhood!” An earlier version of the gallery incorrectly translated the text as “Freedom and Industry 1st!” The gallery has been corrected. Link
Washington Mutual Inc. is paying TPG $50 million for its part in arranging a $7 billion capital infusion, on top of the $198 million it is paying underwriters led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. A Breakingviews column Monday incorrectly stated that the $50 million was more than the $198 million [...]
Thirteen billion golf balls, lying end to end, could go around the earth 14 times. An article in the April 7 Golf report incorrectly said nine times. Link
Thanks, Christopher and Marty!
Labrang monastery is in Xiahe, a city in northwestern China’s Gansu province. A March 15 article on the global spreading of news of protests in Tibet incorrectly identified Xiahe as part of Tibet. Link
Product designer Cricket Lee employs an algorithm to help women find apparel that fits their specific shape. An article in Monday’s Journal Report on Small Business incorrectly said she used a logarithm. Link
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 22, 2008 – 8:00 am
Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. said a lung-cancer clinical trial of its flagship drug Nexavar was halted because it wouldn’t meet its goal of prolonging patient survival. An article about Onyx and the Abreast of the Market column yesterday incorrectly said the study was halted because of increased death in patients taking the drug. Link
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 13, 2008 – 8:00 am
CHINA’S NEW TAX-EXEMPTION RULES mean the government will give up 30 billion yuan, or $4.2 billion, in revenue. In some editions yesterday, a Politics & Economics article incorrectly gave the dollar conversion as $41.7 billion. Link
January 15, 2008 – 8:00 am
THE ORBITOFRONTAL CORTEX is the region of the brain associated with subjective perceptions of pleasantness. An earlier version of a Health Blog post incorrectly described the orbitofrontal cortex as the “pleasure center” of the brain. Also, the post had mischaracterized the reason a researcher couldn’t tell us the name of wine preferred by the study [...]
January 4, 2008 – 8:00 am
I’m a bit late to this one, but Doug Fisher at Common Sense Journalism spotted a November article in the Wall Street Journal that contained a multitude of errors, some of which have been corrected by the paper. Others remain. Fisher’s post on the mistakes is worth reading, if only to count the mistakes. Fisher [...]
January 2, 2008 – 8:00 am
An op-ed on Dec. 26, “Putin’s Cold War,” mistakenly referred to the 1993 Yom Kippur war. The year was 1973. Link
November 27, 2007 – 8:00 am
ON NOV. 2, the Journal published a page-one article on Merrill Lynch & Co. that was based on incorrect information that the firm had engaged in off-balance-sheet deals with hedge funds in a possible bid to delay the recognition of losses connected to the firm’s mortgage-securities exposure. In fact, Merrill proposed a deal with a [...]
November 9, 2007 – 8:00 am
A PAGE-ONE ARTICLE Tuesday about the Basque language, Euskera, in some editions contained several translation errors. The word for donkey herder is astazain, not ahuntzain; the word for pig herder is urdain, not artzain; and a cowboy is a behizain, not an urdain. Link
October 25, 2007 – 8:00 am
Jimmy Warren, financial treasurer of a United Steelworkers local, makes $8,252.62, according to a union spokesman and an LM-2 filing with the Department of Labor. The amount is overstated elsewhere on the Department of Labor Web site and was misreported in this editorial. Link
This is another case of a correction leaving out pertinent information. The [...]
April 12, 2007 – 10:00 am
After many blogs (Gawker, TV Newser etc.) put out calls for the name of the CBS producer fired this week for plagiarism, David Blum has named her in a story in today’s New York Sun. “In an era when plagiarists get dismissed and outed weekly by their employers at news organizations around the country, the [...]
A producer at CBS News has been fired after plagiarizing from the Wall Street Journal for a video essay on “Couric & Co.,” the Katie Couric/group blog on the CBS News website. AP reports the essay was removed and an editor’s note has been placed on the site. We searched the blog in question [...]
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 [...]
By Craig Silverman
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Posted in Magazines, Major Errors, Newspapers, Online, Regret Articles
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Also tagged austin american-statesman, chicago tribune, cincinati enquirer, kansas city star, misidentifications, newsweek, npr, roll call, san diego union-tribune, san francisco chronicle, slate, st. petersburg times, sun-sentinel, times-picayune, washington post
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