Call the irony police: Our year-end Crunks included some errors of our own. You, dear reader, stayed true to form and didn't let us get away with it. It's one of the reasons why we love you. (Another reason being the tips you occasionally drop in our jar to the right.) Onward with our Crunks!
The Crunks
- Our December 15 post, "The story behind "Jew Jersey," 2005's Correction of the Year," misspelled the word error in this sentence: "Then we received an email from Peter Marcus, a reporter at the News, who wrote, '...on behalf of the gentleman who was [responsible for the error]...' " It has been corrected. We regret the error, but appreciate the irony.
- Our December 13 post, "Crunks '05: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections," contained several mistakes. The headline initially included a backwards apostrophe on "'05." The word "caused" was printed as "cased" in this sentence: "Media errors caused incredible consequences for average citizens and the media in 2005." The "New York Post" was called the "New Your Post" in this sentence: "At one point, the New York Post ran a front-page headline..." We used "its" when it should have been "it has" in this sentence: "Looks like it has held up well." Also, the word "that" was written twice in this sentence: "In the May 16 issue, Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker penned an Editor’s Note that said the magazine..." Finally, we instructed readers to click on the image of a Calgary Herald front page in order to get a larger look. In reality, the image remained the same size. So we deleted the suggestion. All of these errors have been corrected. We regret them and will retain the services of a copy editor for next year's round-up.
- Our December 13 post, "2005 Plagiarism Round-Up," referred to "ice flows" instead of "ice floes" in this sentence: "The writer, Barbara Stewart, a former New York Times reporter now based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, wrote a story about the Canadian seal hunt as if she had been there on the ice floes the day it began." It has been corrected. We regret the error.
