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Most Harmless Alessandra Stanley Correction Ever?

Error-prone Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley made a mistake everyone!
Because of an editing error, the TV Watch Column on Wednesday, comparing coverage of Senator Barack Obama’s trip overseas with coverage of Senator John McCain, gave an incorrect title in some copies for a Frankie Valli song used in a video by the McCain campaign to mock reporters’ coverage of Mr. Obama’s trip. The song is “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” — not “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You.”
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5:41 PM on Thu Jul 24 2008
By Pareene
91 views, 7 comments

Latest by valarmorghulis: Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say of at will to old ladies. more »

corrections

'Post' on 'Mamma Mia': "[?]"

We got tipped on this an hour ago and happily it still hasn't been corrected. The New York Post's review of Mamma Mia comes with bracketed editor's notes asking the reviewer to clarify vague passages! At no extra charge! Anyone want to check the print version for us? In case they fix it, click to see the screengrabs. [NYP] More »

9:24 AM on Fri Jul 18 2008
By Pareene
4,596 views, 24 comments

corrections

Times Incorrectly Portrays Bonnie Fuller As Sympathetic Figure

For unclear reasons, the Times felt compelled to hand a huge chunk of its Sunday Business section over to a profile of Bonnie Fuller—the woman most responsible for creating our nation's soul-destroying cast of powerful celebrity magazines—who was recently axed from her multimillion-dollar gig as editorial chief of American Media. A sympathetic profile! The news peg, purportedly: Bonnie Fuller is doing some vague new project on the internet. For women! With specifics to be determined! Color us skeptical. The Fuller that the Times describes does not sound like the woman who was so despised by her assistants that they put snot in her food. What's the major malfunction here? More »

10:38 AM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
2,051 views, 17 comments

Latest by lizzybennet: @virgilicious: Considering all the ball sweat she has forced American females to ingest from her YM days onward, serves her right! more »

stanley-watch

Error-prone Critic Actually Trying to Get Things Right For Change

Times tv critic Alessandra Stanley gets a lot of shit around here for making mistakes. It's not just that she makes a lot of them (though she does, or did), it's that she makes obvious, egregious ones that seem to suggest that she doesn't actually watch tv. But she's gotten better about it! She says. She told Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici that she's "trying to avoid" corrections, which is apparently a change of pace for her. How's she doing? Pretty well! She hasn't had a correction since she got the date of the Iraq war wrong 103 days ago. Her longest streak since 2002! BUT! More »

2:42 PM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Pareene
2,659 views, 11 comments

Latest by if_i_only_had_a_heart: real reporters at real newspapers used to get fired for getting someone's middle initial wrong in a photo caption more »

Post In Tennis-Hottie Mistake Scandal The tabloid said semi-retired Anna Kournikova wants to work for Vogue's Anna Wintour, but really it was the other Russian tennis blonde, Maria Sharapova, who does. Easy way to keep them straight: Sharapova calls her blog posts "doodles," while Kournikova calls them "blogs," just like Arianna Huffington. [Observer]

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Correction of the Day Lynne Truss is the author of the grammar-punctuation book Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. Something tells us she also has a zero-tolerance approach to the Guardian misspelling her name! [Regret the Error]

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email slips

Times Fact-Checkers Embarrassed By 'Know-It-All' Reader

The NYT values their super-smart readers! Or do they? "I got this back from the Times after I complained about a mistake in Alex Witchel's article on [the television show] "Mad Men,'" in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine, says a reader. "Looks like somebody hit "Reply To All" once too often! Both [writer] Witchel & [research editor] Alani called me a know-it-all."
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2:15 PM on Mon Jun 23 2008
By Sheila
15,027 views, 69 comments

the corrections

For the Record: Liza Minnelli Did Not Give David Gest Herpes

British newspapers keep saying that David Gest, the probably-gay producer and ex-husband of vodka bottle-tossing harridan Liza Minnelli, has herpes. And it's just not true! (Or so says Gest). The peculiar, face-stretched fellow has never had the disease and certainly never said that crazy old Liza with a Z (singer, actress, gurgling legend) gave the disease to him, as was reported. Because, of course Liza didn't give him herpes. That would imply that they'd touched each other's privates. Which, of course, never happened. As they are respectable publications, the papes that printed the stories, The Times and The Independent dutifully printed corrections, one a month or so after the other. So, case closed. But the mystery of Gest's curiously enduring fame in the UK remains. The printed corrections are after the jump. More »

11:56 AM on Tue Jun 10 2008
By Richard
1,581 views, 22 comments

Latest by pureblarney: @PimpMyCouch: Thank you. This woman is Lucille Too. + Watch video more »

corrections

Crushing Blow To Plutocrat Miley Cyrus Fans

Really, the Wall Street Journal should not toy so shamelessly with the many people who subscribe to the business newspaper, are avid fans of country teen sensation Miley Cyrus and own Wal-Mart stock. Sobs will no doubt be heard at trading desks and in executive suites throughout the morning. [WSJ]

8:38 AM on Fri Jun 6 2008
By Ryan Tate
428 views, 6 comments

Latest by LeGagneur: They could probably get Hillary Duff to do it as Plan B. We all know she's probably dying to get some work on her plate right now. more »

correction of the month

"Chopped Down or Left to Die" at the WSJ

The correction for Jane Garmey's Wall Street Journal article about some gardens is so long and varied that it leaves us wondering: did she get anything right at all? Therefore, we're inducting her into our Corrections Hall of Fame! (NYT corrections queen Alessandra Stanley is saving her a seat.) Click to see the explanation that "there are no plans to dismantle the figbar hedge; and nobody associated with Duke Farms stated that anything on the property will be either chopped down or left to die." [WSJ]

12:12 PM on Tue Jun 3 2008
By Sheila
1,053 views, 10 comments

Latest by themediatrix: @CaptainHangNail: Hmmm, guilty conscience! No, no plagiarism that I noticed; just observing a similarity in childhood tales. more »

oops

Michelle Obama: Not In New York

Note to America: Michelle Obama is not in New York. Whoever sent in yesterday's Michelle Obama sighting to Gawker Stalker was incorrect. She was not in New York and "she has Secret service now so she does not enter through front doors," according to one emailer. Elitist. Anyway, Michelle's communications director wrote in last night to ask us to pull that sighting down, "as it is creating GREAT confusion." The truth is we are not sure how the map works and are unable to pull anything down from it. But we are still sorry about confusion. Shame on you, anonymous Gawker Stalker who submitted the sighting. By which we mean, obviously, Maureen Dowd.

9:44 AM on Thu May 22 2008
By Pareene
998 views, 7 comments

Latest by n/a: Condie? She couldn't be mistaken for the teeth. Please. more »

hypocrisy

The Post Was Probably Drunk When It Wrote That

Yesterday, the New York Post splashed with a big story about on-air cussing WNBC anchor Sue Simmons being a drunk who liked to down cocktails before doing her show. Today, the tabloid's follow-up mentions how she denies having a drink before showtime in the last 15 years, without even acknowledging that Simmons is talking about the Post itself when she says "I understand now why many people don't trust the media." Apart from the "Journalism" issue here (ha), the odd part is that the paper should have a little more respect for fellow professional drunks. After all, boozing is a Post trademark—and it starts right at the top, with the paper's heroically enthusiastic alcohol-abusing editor Col Allan! More »

10:59 AM on Thu May 15 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
3,662 views, 15 comments

Latest by LadyChatterley: Hey that jaunt at Scores won our Prime Minister the election! more »

No Booze Before Cuss Out, Says WNBC Anchor Sue Simmons, correcting the Post: "I haven't had an alcoholic drink between shows for at least 15 years or more." [Post]

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journalismism

The Biggest Apology Ever?

So, what's happening in Boston today? An outpouring of grief from the Boston Herald! The paper runs what may be the biggest correction of all time, size-wise: a front page splash apologizing to the New England Patriots for alleging that the team had videotaped an opponent's practice session. The original story ran February 2—the day before the Super Bowl, which the Patriots lost. Since the team obviously suffered morale failure from this traitorous blow by their hometown rag, this was really the least the Herald could do. (News of the apocalypse, P. 24). Click through for a larger picture. More »

1:48 PM on Wed May 14 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
1,808 views, 36 comments

Latest by In Other News...: @GrumpyMcGillicutty: Manning won the Super Bowl on a lob pass... not a field goal. more »

corrections

'Times' Mistakes Security Guard For Someone They Care to Talk To

Well. The Times sent some poor stringer to ask about salmon diseases at some port in Chile. Fun gig! One can understand why he was maybe inclined to get his interviews done and get the hell out. Fish smells gross! Still, he might've wanted to ask around a bit more after his interview with the "port director." He might've learned that that guy was, in fact, the security guard. "Had The Times been aware of his actual position at the time, it would not have cited him as an authority on the contents of the bags, which were labeled medicated food." Well heck, why didn't the Times just say "the port director might've said" and saved themselves the trouble of getting that pretend expert opinion? Text of the correction below. More »

10:36 AM on Tue May 13 2008
By Pareene
1,102 views, 2 comments

Latest by Flashman: Not as good as the time the BBC pulled this guy into the studio and interviewed him as if he was an IT expert: + Watch video more »

Post: Sex Tape Lie Totally Our Bad "ON April 23 we reported that the fiancée of Gregg 'Opie' Hughes, one half of the Opie and Anthony radio show, was involved in an X-rated sex video with MTV star Bam Margera. We reported that Hughes was taking legal action against a disgruntled ex-employee of the radio duo who had acquired the rights to the video. We have since learned that this information, supplied by Steppin' Out's Chaunce Hayden, was entirely incorrect. There is no sex tape. Further, Hughes' fiancée has never met the MTV star. The Post sincerely regrets the error." [Post]

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'Times' Correction: Topless Miley Cyrus Not Topless

The New York Times ran a "correction" of their Business section front page story yesterday on how young Miley "Hannah Montana" Cyrus was totally topless on the cover of Vanity Fair, due to her recent run-in with a Jewish lesbian mystic, who hypnotized her. Now, the Times claims Cyrus was topped. The correction: More »

2:14 PM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Pareene
3,418 views, 16 comments

corrections

Correction of the Month: The Dalai Lama Gave You AIDS

This, from the Columbia Spectator, is a truly beautiful correction. Turns out there's no evidence to support the claim that "one Dalai Lama" had sex with hundreds of men even though he knew he had AIDS. The fact that the current Dalai Lama has held the position since 1950 certainly narrows down the candidates there, doesn't it. Beautiful. [Spectator]

12:12 PM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By Pareene
14,219 views, 17 comments

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