An early version of an Associated Press story about the David Petraeus resignation and ensuing scandal mistakenly referred to Jill Kelley as a “socialist” rather than a socialite.
The error made it onto many websites, as evidenced by Google:
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It’s been rough week for Canada’s Globe And Mail. A plagiarism scandal engulfed one of its premier columnists and it’s facing criticism for letting a freelance columnist use a regular real estate feature to promote the sale of her house… Read more
He wrote that one of his teaching fellows originally detected suspicious similarities on that question, which read, “Describe two developments in the history of Congress that ostensibly gave individual MCs [members of Congress] in the House greater freedom and/or control but ultimately centralized power in the hands of party leadership.”When news of the scandal broke, Mary Carmichael reported in The Boston Globe that, in response, "Harvard administrators will also explore new strategies for educating students about academic norms — an effort they had intensified in the past two years because of fears that plagiarism was becoming rampant." My coworker Craig Silverman pointed out last week that journalism, too, has been plagued by reports of plagiarism in recent months. (more...)
Several students answered that question with the same two “somewhat obscure” responses—the Cannon Revolt of 1910 and longtime 19th century Congressman Henry Clay, Platt wrote.
Continuing with today’s theme of embarrassing media mistakes about restaurants, I offer you this seemingly mundane correction from Canada’s Hamilton Spectator:
In the June 16 edition, the name of Hamilton waterfront restaurant Sarcoa was misspelled. The Spectator regrets the
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The Los Angeles Times mistakenly turned an oral exam into a “moral” one:
State bar: An article in the May 17 LATExtra section about the California Supreme Court considering a request by the state bar to allow an illegal immigrant to practice law said that Sergio C. Garcia had passed a written test and a moral examination. It was an oral examination.
Thanks to Steve Lamont for emailing it in.
Call the irony police.
A Daily Beast story about some of the best correspondence from former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee (note the first name) contains this 1978 advice in reply to a young man who asked for a … Read more
At first I guessed it was a spell-check error that transformed fantastically-named “Sherlock” actor Benedict Cumberbatch into “Bandersnatch Cummerbund” in a Washington Post story, but I was wrong.
(Via @Alex_Ogle and @sstummeafp)
A typo in The Observer (U.K.) suggested people were receiving insect, rather than ear, implants:
A brief guide to neuroscience (“The brain. . . it makes you think. Doesn’t it?”, Discover, New Review, last week, page 19) referred to “cochineal implants” in a sub-heading. That should, of course, have been cochlear implants.
Note the date in the photo caption of this Ottawa Citizen front page image from April 7:
Here’s the resulting correction that ran Sunday:
RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic Ocean in 1912. An incorrect date
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