Romps and Retractions
Let's look at a few of the more entertaining errors in journalism 2006. They were compiled by Craig Silverman of Regret the Error, a Web site that does a great job of keeping us all honest...
By Nick Madigan • • 4m ListenFor KCRW, this is Nick Madigan of The Baltimore Sun with Minding the Media.
Regret the Error, a Web site that does a great job of keeping us all honest.
Sun, a nasty tabloid well known as a bastion of sloppiness, vulgarity and sheer fiction.
Princess Eugenie, one of Queen Elizabeth's granddaughters, whose 16th birthday party "descended into a drunken rave, with teenage guests snogging (that's British for necking), boozing and being sick…"
A "witness" told the paper that "randy guests dived into bedrooms in search of drunken romps." "Others passed out because they were so drunk, while several vomited."
a review of the film Little Miss Sunshine that had "referred incorrectly" to participants in a children's beauty pageant.
The Oregonian, editors acknowledged they "should have made clear that Oregon Health & Science University will be studying the effects of meth, not cooking it."
National Post, which reported that Iran might require non-Muslims to wear ID badges. The paper splashed the story across six front-page columns, with a photo of Hungarian Jews wearing yellow stars during World War II.
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