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more about #corrections more comments → iplaudius: Yes, because if Alec Baldwin ordered a funny cake, it would actually turn out funny. #alecbaldwin more » jenndavo: Someone send this to Cake Wrecks. It looks like Jerry Seinfeld with Twizzler dreadlocks. #alecbaldwin more » LatestBy: Have we solved the mystery of who Wade is yet? #alecbaldwin more » Spirit Fingers: Could it be possible that no knowledgeable adult chose this cake and it's the work of a gaggle of like-minded fifteen year-olds who thought it would "... more » City_Dater: Further proof that Alec Baldwin may have anger management issues, but he is not a full-on whackjob completely devoid of good judgement or taste. #alec... more » mfnher: I can feel myself getting pregnant just looking at it. #alecbaldwin more » belltolls: The Chatham House Rule, eh? Goodnight you princes of DC, you kings of the Mid-Atlantic. #washingtonpost more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Trial balloon: The public can offer journalists hookers and blow, cash and vacations, to win their loyalty. #washingtonpost more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: scruples. ethics. discuss. #washingtonpost more » applejuice: What's wrong with thise dudes pic on the main page? It shows up like it is the opposite of the coneheads pic. more » Trai_Dep: Sort of like the Dan "The whole damned story is true but the MSM will instead focus on whether '70s faxes used smart quotes" Rather incident. The only... more » johnnypotatoes: "It comes from Wikipedia, which cites a book that got it from Wikipedia." I was waiting for that sentence to be written before I could say this with ... more » misslinda: I notice that Glenn Beck isn't demanding that anyone apologize for saying that he raped and murdered a young girl in 1990, so it's gotta be true. Sad,... more » MyNameIsChris: My hunch is that quote is completely fictional... otherwise we would have had a media field day about it when he actually said it. I usually find Rush... more » jasonelias: It's hilarious that people have to apologize for using and believing fake quotes are true when Rush's career has been built on lies. Well, lies and lo... more » -
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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] -
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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 » -
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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 » -
#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] -
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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 » -
#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] -
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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 » -
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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 » -
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#fortherecord
Correction: This 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!
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#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 » -
#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 » -
#feuds
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 » -
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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 » -
#crime
Steve Bing Will Not Testify Against His Scummy Private Eye Friend
There is a correction to that Times article on Die Hard auteur John McTiernan's movie about how Karl Rove is the reason he is being prosecuted for lying to the FBI about Anthony Pellicano. More » -
#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 » -
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Graydon Carter Denies Report He's 'An Amazing Fuck'
A more cocksure man might have played along, but Graydon Carter's tenure atop Vanity Fair has apparently taught him the danger of hype and high expectations, so he's denied a flattering sex story. More » -
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Times Fingers Wrong Guy As Felony Bribery Suspect
Sorry, Haverhill, Massachusetts lawyer Paul A. Magliocchetti. The New York Times photo desk thought you were that other Paul Magliocchetti. You know, the one just raided by federal prosecutors! More » -
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DABA Girls: Please Call Us Con Artists, Not Gold Diggers
The "Dating a Banker Anonymous" girls, who quickly became America's least favorite gold diggers when the NYT profiled them last month, now say that they were just playing around! But this doesn't absolve them, no:
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#fameballs
Rex Sorgatz's Exaggeration
After igniting controversy throughout North America with his comments to the Observer, Web attention-trolling expert Rex Sorgatz backtracked. Or, as he put it, cleared some things up. More » -
#corrections
Maybe 'Greedy Chinese: Threat Or Menace?' Would Have Been Clearer
How would someone come away with that impression? The headline is so complex and nuanced! As headlines tend to be! [Times]
