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Local Newspaper Goes Off the Record and Into an Infinite Loop

The Nashua Telegraph quoted a White House official saying a Q-and-A with area high schoolers was "off the record." But it turned out the conversation about being "off the record" was itself "off the record," so they retracted that, too. More »

02/05/10

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By Maureen O'Connor

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Turns Out Hot Blonde Women Are No More Entitled Than Other Hot Women

Yesterday everyone, including us, went all frothy for a story about blonde women being more war-like and determined than others. Turns out it was kind of false. Here's how it spread. More »

01/19/10

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By Ravi Somaiya

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Whoops! Complete Prick Isn't Related to Nice Lady

Earlier this week, we called congressman Jason Chaffetz a self-hating weirdo, an asshole, a probable closet case, and the son of Kitty Dukakis. He is not the son of Kitty Dukakis. We regret the error.

12/18/09

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By Pareene

#mediacrack

Click here to read <em>New York Times</em> Barely Worth Freelancing For

New York Times Barely Worth Freelancing For

In your arctic Wednesday media column: the NYT freelancers grow restless, News Corp hands out Christmas bonuses, the Miami Herald is sad, fabulous corrections, and layoffs at TNR. More »

12/16/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

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Successful Baldwin Brother in Weezy Cake-Buy Deny

FACTUAL CORRECTION: Alec Baldwin denies purchasing his daughter Ireland this terrifying cake in the shape of rap personality and famed drug consumer Lil Wayne. It must have been Kim Basinger who special-ordered the toothy, licorice-haired monstrosity. [Vulture]

11/04/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#journalismism

Click here to read <i>New York Times</i> to <i>Washington Post</i>'s Executive Editor: Liar, Liar, Liar.

New York Times to Washington Post's Executive Editor: Liar, Liar, Liar.

Revelations surfaced in July that pricey, shady, plainly unethical off-the-record dinners between Washington Post reporters and DC lobbyists were planned. It resulted in the firing of the WaPo's marketing director. Now, the NYT calls out their executive editor. SHOTS FIRED! More »

10/17/09

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By Foster Kamer

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CNN Apologizes to Rush Limbaugh

So Rush Limbaugh was forbidden from owning the St. Louis Rams because the Obama White House controls the NFL players' union and, obviously, they control the NFL. But he totally didn't say those terrible things about black people! More »

10/16/09

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By Pareene

#fortherecord

Paul Krugman Addresses His Anti-Swiss Bias

Paul Krugman says Reagan sucks blah blah...oh, look, a correction! "In my column last Monday, I made a joke about the Swiss that fell flat with some readers. Also, the Swiss don't wear lederhosen." So shrill! [NYT]

08/24/09

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By Pareene

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Play-By-Play: The Self-Loathing NYT's Ultimate Alessandra Stanley Flogging

We've made fun of her time and time again for her absurdly error-filled columns, but this takes it to an entirely new level: the New York Times publicly addressed The Alessandra Stanley Problem today in Clark Hoyt's Public Editor column. More »

08/02/09

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By Foster Kamer

#fail

When Alessandra Stanley Falls Off The Corrections Wagon, She Hits The Ground Hard

Wow. Is the New York Times just picking on poor error-ridden Alessandra Stanley, now? Yet another correction was published in today's paper from her Walter Cronkite appraisal, which they've already corrected twice. Epic. [NY Times Corrections]

08/01/09

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By Foster Kamer

#journalismism

Click here to read Alessandra Stanley Corrected <em>Hard</em>

Alessandra Stanley Corrected Hard

There are corrections and then there are Corrections, and error-prone New York Times mistaker Alessandra Stanley got corrected today. For the second time. For the same Walter Cronkite story. Cronkite was good, but he didn't "storm the beaches" on D-Day. More »

07/22/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

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Correction: Twitter Didn't Exact Suggested User List Revenge on TechCrunch

Mea culpa: We reported here previously that Twitter had yanked TechCrunch from its list of suggested users, apparently retaliation for publishing hacker-obtained internal Twitter docs. Not true. Details of my dumb error after the jump. More »

07/16/09

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By Ryan Tate

#fortherecord

Correction: This Is the Woman Who Says She Gave Bill Clinton a 'Baile Hot'

Click here to read Correction: <i>This</i> Is the Woman Who Says She Gave Bill Clinton a 'Baile Hot'

In our item about how Bill Clinton maybe got a lap dance from an Argentinian reality show star, we accidentally put up a picture of the Colombian Andrea Rincon. Here is the right one. Also: she makes some wild claims! More »

06/17/09

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By Pareene

#fortherecord

Imus Producer Was Actually First to Call Sotomayor 'J-Lo' For No Reason

Earlier this week, we claimed some moron blogger was the first racist to publicly call Sonia Sotomayor "J-Lo" for no reason other than her ethnicity. We were incorrect. More »

06/05/09

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By Pareene

#fortherecord

Fallen Tech Messiah: I'm 30 Pounds Lighter, Not in Cannes

Michael Saylor has written in with corrections to our item on him yesterday. The MicroStrategy CEO was was not in Cannes this year, as Page Six had it. And we used an old, fat picture! More »

05/21/09

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By Ryan Tate

#feuds

Click here to read Selena Roberts vs. <em>The New York Times</em>: Behind the Correction

Selena Roberts vs. The New York Times: Behind the Correction

Media minutiae feud alert! The combatants: Selena Roberts, former star NYT sports reporter now at Sports Illustrated; and her former paper. Did the Times try, and fail, to take her down, journalistically? Details! [UPDATED]: More »

05/20/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#journalismism

NPR: Please Keep Talking About How We Won't Talk About How Charlie Crist Is Gay

Remember how NPR censored the review of the film Outrage because Larry Craig's sexuality is not as newsworthy as Queen Latifah's? They demand a correction of this story of their asinine behavior! More »

05/13/09

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By Pareene

#crime

Steve Bing Will Not Testify Against His Scummy Private Eye Friend

04/15/09

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#mediacrack

Fox's Annoying Scandal

In your finally Friday media column: the New York Times "eats crow" (funny joke LOL), the Newseum wins, ASME loses, and police charge Fox with being annoying: More »

04/10/09

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By Hamilton Nolan

#corrections