The recipe for Irish Whiskey Cake in the April 30 Food section called for an incorrect amount of whiskey in the glaze. It should be 1 cup, not 1 tablespoon. Link
The Media Notes column in the April 28 Style section incorrectly said that Atlanta has two newspapers with the same owner. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is a single newspaper. Link
The URL for the comics survey on the front of today’s Sunday comics section, which is printed in advance, is incorrect. The correct address is http:///http://http://comicsurvey.washpost.com. Link
A March 25 Page One article about the merger of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio incorrectly said that the public interest group Free Press supports conditions on the merger. Free Press has opposed the merger, even with conditions. Link
The Courtland Milloy column in the March 19 Metro section incorrectly said that Fox News anchor Brit Hume referred to Barack Obama’s speech on race as “blaming whites.” Hume did not say or imply that. Link
A March 16 Style & Arts article about the film “Under the Same Moon” misstated the number of unaccompanied minors apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol in 2005. The agency apprehended 11,890 unaccompanied minors that year, not 115,000, The latter figure is roughly the total number of minors apprehended, including those seized along with adult [...]
In some March 8 editions, an A-section article about the resignation of an aide to Sen. Barack Obama paraphrased James P. Rubin, an adviser to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, as saying the incident showed that Obama is not prepared to be commander in chief. Rubin did not say that. Link
A photo caption with a March 12 Food article about global warming and wine incorrectly implied that Doug Shafer, owner of Shafer Vineyards in California, is skeptical about climate change. He said only that he has not seen evidence of climate change at his vineyard. Link
A March 9 Magazine article about hospitals in North Korea incorrectly referred to “the late evangelist Billy Graham.” Graham, 89, lives near Asheville, N.C. Link
February 15, 2008 – 8:00 am
A Jan. 26 Business article on potential nominees for head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission said researchers Gail Charnley and Jacqueline Patterson wrote a letter to a technical journal about a study that they had co-authored without disclosing that the study had been funded partly by pesticide makers. However, the authors disclosed their funding [...]
January 30, 2008 – 8:00 am
A Jan. 27 Style & Arts article about photographer Jill Greenberg incorrectly described a primate named Mala as a chimp. Mala is a baboon. Also, Greenberg’s photo in the February issue of GQ is of a lamb, not a llama. Link
January 9, 2008 – 8:00 am
A Dec. 6 A-section article about Mormonism and presidential candidates incorrectly stated some results of a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. Asked to give a one-word impression of Mormonism, 75 respondents — not 75 percent — said “polygamy,” and 57 respondents — not 57 percent — called the [...]
November 29, 2007 – 8:00 am
A Nov. 27 Style review of a performance by the band Coheed and Cambria incorrectly said that drummer Chris Pennie is a former member of the band Dismemberment Plan. He played with the Dillinger Escape Plan. Link
November 12, 2007 – 8:00 am
A graphic with a Nov. 8 A-section article on a school shooting in Finland was incorrectly labeled as showing “gun ownership per 100 people, in selected countries.” It should have said: “Estimated number of guns per 100 people, in selected countries.” Link
November 7, 2007 – 8:00 am
The Nov. 5 obituary of George G. Wynne incorrectly reported that his father was Jewish. Link
In the ombudsman’s column on Sunday, James Dobson was incorrectly identified as a minister. Mr. Dobson, founder and chairman of the group Focus on the Family, is a psychologist. Link
We previously cataloged the frequency of this error here. The Post in particular is prone to making this mistake, including this recent correction.
One of the poems that KidsPost published as part of its poetry contest on Tuesday was not written by the child who submitted it. The poem that appeared as “Who Am I?” was actually written by J. Patrick Lewis and published in his book “Monumental Verses.” The child who sent the poem to KidsPost said [...]
October 19, 2006 – 8:00 am
An Oct. 15 Sports article incorrectly identified Nick Bax as a runner for St. Albans School in England. He runs for the school of the same name in the District. Also, the article described Bax as having trailed another runner for the first 4,000 kilometers of a race. It was the first 4,000 meters. Link [...]
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, wall street journal
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Looks like fake quotes have, like, struck again, this time in a Washington Post “Names & Faces” column:
The March 18 Names & Faces column included a quote that was
attributed to Britney Spears via Allure magazine. The quote was
actually a spoof, written by a Philadelphia Daily News reporter, of an
Allure interview with Spears. The spoof was [...]
December 2, 2004 – 8:00 am
A Washington Post correction demonstrates one fallibility when interviewing people on the street — journalists never ask them for ID to prove they are who they say they are. (Not that we’re suggesting they do; It’s just hard to protect against folks who willingly mislead the media.)
This reminds us of one priceless example from a [...]
