The Daily Targum, a student paper at Rutgers, last week published an editorial decrying a bill in North Dakota that would cause “a picture of a fertilized egg… [to be] considered child pornography.” As you can imagine, the bill in question had no such measure. The paper was fooled ...

In our article ‘Wikiworld’ (3 February 2009) we repeated several claims about Jimmy Wales, the Wikipedia founder: that he had a company that dealt in “soft porn” and was short-lived: that he had had to defend himself against “allegations from former colleagues that he u...

Roy Greenslade spotted an amusing apology in the letters section of the Independent (UK). It’s written by the author of this Independent article: Salman Rushdie: an apology In my essay on the apology culture (12 February) I wrote, in the heat of the moment, that Sir Salman Rushdie went to Ound...

A Queens hairstylist is suing the New York Daily News after the paper twice identified her as the woman accused of helping run a prostitution service allegedly patronized by former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. In two stories from last week, the paper published a photo of Bojana Vuleta and identified...

New York Times executive editor Bill Keller participated in an online Q&A with the public this week. Some of his answers touched on accuracy, credibility and corrections. Here’s one relevant exchange: Q. You’ve been the face of The Times through the very roughest times for The Times....

An article on Saturday about the book “The Other Side of Desire: Four Journeys Into the Far Realms of Lust and Longing,� by Daniel Bergner, referred incorrectly to an enterprise of a woman known as the Baroness who is interviewed in the book. While she hosts what she describes as New York’s lo...

The New York Times’ Career Couch feature recently offered advice for dealing with workplace mistakes. A lot of the insights can also be applied to journalistic errors. Here are some relevant excerpts: One key to handling errors effectively is to recognize they aren’t necessarily a reflection...

On December 6 we published a letter signed by A J Bennett that suggested Mayor Parker was a friend of David Henderson and that the Mayor had been photographed brandishing dildoes and “doobies” or marijuana joints. Through his legal counsel Mayor Parker has confirmed, and we accept, that ...

Seattle weekly The Stranger makes an annual, hilarious  accounting of its mistakes. Some entries are corrections for factual errors; others are regrets of an entirely different nature. Some samples: The February 14 issue of The Stranger referred to Seattle resident Tae Rhee as a “woman.”...

Please note the important 4th writethru to SCOC-Cromwell which corrects the name of the former Supreme Court judge to Michel Bastarache, which had been changed to Bastard by a spellcheck error. Thanks, Carolyn!...