http://www.regrettheerror.com/2006/12/crunks_06_the_y.htmlSome funny ones:
From The New York Times:
A film review on Wednesday about “Little Miss Sunshine” referred incorrectly to contestants in the fictional children’s beauty pageant of the title. The critic intended to compare the contestants to underage prostitutes, not to “underage fleshpots.”
From the Chicago Tribune:
An editorial in Friday’s paper incorrectly stated that Florida Cresswell, a candidate for state representative in the 28th District, was convicted in 1999 of battery and stealing Tupperware. In fact he was convicted of stealing a battery from a van as well as Tupperware that was inside the van.
From (who else?) the Sun (U.K.):
On 13 February we published an article headed "Who bum it?" reporting that two Premiership footballers and a music industry figure had a "gay romp" in which a mobile phone was used as a "gay sex toy". On 16 February we published a picture of Mr Cole and his fiancee headed 'Ashley’s got a good taste in rings’.
Some readers have understood that Mr Cole was one of the two Premiership players involved in the gay sex and that Choice FM DJ, Masterstepz, was the music industry figure.
We are happy to make clear that Mr Cole and Masterstepz were not involved in any such activities. We apologise to them for any distress caused and we are paying them each a sum by way of damages. The Sun wishes Ashley all the best for next Saturday's World Cup quarter-final.
In mid May, Canada’s National Post thought it had a huge scoop thanks to information from an Iranian writer, namely that a recently-passed law in Iran could require non-Muslims to wear special identification badges on their clothing.
The paper splashed the story, “Iran Eyes Badges For Jews,” across six columns on its May 19 front page and capped it off with a huge photo of Hungarian Jews sporting yellow stars during WWII. The story was wrong, totally wrong.
The Post ran an article detailing some of the questions about the story the next day, but it had already been picked up in North America, Europe and beyond. Then, finally, on May 24 the paper ran a Page 2 note from its editor headlined, “Our mistake: Note to readers.” It read, in part:
...We acknowledge that on this story, we did not exercise sufficient caution and skepticism, and we did not check with enough sources. We should have pushed the sources we did have for more corroboration of the information they were giving us. That is not to say that we ignored basic journalistic practices or that we rushed this story into print with no thought as to the consequences. But given the seriousness of the allegations, more was required.
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