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Virginian-Pilot corrects relationship between a parrot and cat

Craig Silverman — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:17:30 +0000

A correction from The Virginian-Pilot:

Because of an editing error, a story (“Odd Fellows”) in the Sunday Magazine section about unusual relationships between animals incorrectly characterized interactions between Nikki the parrot and Mavish the cat. The parrot does talk and… Read more

Campaign to eliminate media mentions of ‘Polish death camps’ claims success with AP Stylebook change

Craig Silverman — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:24:34 +0000

This was been a good week for Alex Storozynski, the president and executive director of the Kosciuszko Foundation, and a former journalist with the New York Daily News and the New York Sun, among other publications. (He shared a… Read more

Correction: Boney James not recording music for Hustler DVD

Craig Silverman — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:29:23 +0000

Correction: Boney James not recording music for Hustler DVD

“Entertainment news service WENN issued a correction to say a musician is not recording for a porn film: In a story headlined ‘SNOOP & MACK 10 RECORD MUSIC FOR PORN FILM’,… Read more

NYT corrects three errors in Zaslow obit

Craig Silverman — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:59:58 +0000

The New York Times corrected three errors in its obituary for journalist Jeffrey Zaslow:

An obituary on Saturday about the author Jeffrey Zaslow contained several errors. The bookstore where Mr. Zaslow appeared on Thursday, the night before he was killed… Read more

Politico mistakes state flag for union flag

Craig Silverman — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:48:43 +0000

Politico mistakes state flag for union flag, writes story based on error

Slate writer deliberately inserts untruths in review of ‘The Lifespan of a Fact’

Craig Silverman — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:54:45 +0000

The newly-released book “The Lifespan of a Fact” has benefited from some decent publicity. An excerpt of the book appeared in Harper’s, and there have been interesting articles in The New Yorker and Salon, among other… Read more

Column about ‘lowly’ copy editors elicits hilarious response from newspaper colleague

Craig Silverman — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:32:32 +0000

Steve Murray is a very funny “graphic columnist” for Canada’s National Post. This week, Murray also submitted a letter to the editor. Murray was moved to write to the paper after the Post published a column, “The lonely life of… Read more

Fact from fiction: PolitiFact draws ire for checking ‘Glee’

Craig Silverman — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:47:49 +0000

Has the Great Fact Checking Explosion reached a new level of strangeness so soon into the election year?

Or to put it the way some did Tuesday: Has PolitFact jumped the shark?

These questions are cropping up thanks to… Read more

A lot of love in this Talking Points Memo correction

Craig Silverman — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:32:41 +0000

A lot of love in this Talking Points Memo correction:

“Correction: This article originally misidentified the milk carton’s partner as an egg. It is, in fact, a chocolate chip cookie, as a reader pointed out. We have since corrected the… Read more

Dominion Post retracts story that ignored ‘basic principles of reporting’

Craig Silverman — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:31:45 +0000

Dominion Post retracts story that ignored ‘basic principles of reporting’:

On January 30 we ran a story about a 17-year-old Pakistani woman who claimed she had been forced into marriage and held hostage by her ex-husband and his family in… Read more