Following on the heels of the San Francisco Chronicle error detailed below, we offer some more corrections for photo misidentifications. How often do they happen in newspapers? Well, these corrections were all published yesterday. So, yeah, they're kind of frequent. The first one is priceless.
Rabbi Meir Mitelman, chaplain at Hofstra University and executive
director of its Hillel, is pictured here. A photograph of the Rev.
David Aldridge of Central Presbyterian Church in Huntington ran with a
comment by Mitelman in Saturday's "Asking Chaplains" feature on the
Faith page.
Samantha Goldstein was the girl at the pottery wheel in the picture that appeared on Page A21 in Sunday's edition. The name in the caption that ran with the photo was incorrect. Link
A story on Page A3 Sunday about an Assembly bill to crack down on tax
scofflaws was accompanied by an incorrect photograph. The photograph
identified as Assemblyman Jerome Horton, D-Inglewood, was actually
former Assemblyman Manny Diaz, D-San Jose. A bill by Horton, pictured
here, would publicize the names and addresses of tax cheats in an
effort to collect. Link
In a previous photo caption, Danielle Drakes was misidentified as Bernie Alston. Link
The St. Pete Times also managed to misidentify a photograph of a road:
In the aerial photograph that ran on the front of Sunday's section, the
Suncoast Parkway/State Road 52 interchange is seen. The state road
designation was incorrect in the caption.
This recent one was also impressive, as was this. Read our post about the Chronicle's error for links to two of the worst misidentifications of recent memory.
