Regret the Error

Lose a word, lose the meaning

Due to a technical error The Moscow News ran a typo in the article titled "Bringing Expats to Russia - Without the Pain"(Issue #40, page 17). The sentence in the seventh paragraph ending with "...though actually I find that Moscow is not clean." should have read "...though actually I find that Moscow is clean."
We regret the error and extend our apology to Tim Carty.

Less exciting

"Canvas": The review of "Canvas" in Friday's Calendar section said the film was rated R for drug use, strong sexuality, violence and pervasive language. That rating was for a 1992 film with the same title. The "Canvas" that opened Friday is rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements. Link

Apology

In 'Turncoat Terry' (Sport, 23 Sept), we did not intend to adopt any allegation that John Terry was a 'turncoat' or 'disloyal' or that he had played any intentional part in the departure of Jose Mourinho from Chelsea Football Club. We accept his assurance that he did not. We also accept that our headline might have caused confusion and apologise if any contrary impression was given. Link

A nickname to be proud of

X-rated movie director Inkyo Volt Hwang's nickname was Wanker Wang. An article on page A1 Saturday misspelled the nickname. Link

So who was the unlucky misidentified person?

A brief Tuesday in the City & State section about a Chapel Hill police officer being bitten named the wrong person as the one charged with the assault. Partia Marie Allen, 21, of Durham, was charged with assault on a government official, malicious conduct by a prisoner and drunk and disruptive behavior at Spice Street restaurant early Sunday morning. Link

A man (not) named Sue

An obituary Tuesday on Nolan Herndon, who participated in World War II's Doolittle Raid, gave his nickname as Sue. In fact, he was known only as Nolan Anderson Herndon. Link

Herndon obituary: The obituary of Doolittle Raider Nolan A. Herndon in Monday's California section gave his nickname as Sue. In fact, he was known only as Nolan Anderson Herndon. In addition, his sons were listed as Nolan A. "Sue" Herndon Jr. and James M. "Debbie" Herndon. Neither son goes by those nicknames; Sue and Debbie are the names of their wives. Link

Bad for business

On 24 August 2007, "The Australian Financial Review" (AFR) referred to the public relations (PR) firm Jackson Wells Morris (JWM). Regarding the page 17 article, the AFR accepts that JWM are not "spin doctors" for the Liberal Party of Australia. In fact, it has been a long-standing company policy not to work for any political party. The AFR also accepts that JWM provided a client report with an unbiased and honest view of industry opinion. To this effect, JWM did not prepare a report with the aim of convincing the Australian Labor Party to retain the building industry regulator, the Australian Building & Construction Commission...

A tale of error and correction that began in 1994

An article on July 5, 1994, about James B. Blair, then the general counsel for the Tyson Foods company and a longtime confidant and personal emissary for Bill and Hillary Clinton, misstated benefits that Tyson received from the state of Arkansas while Mr. Clinton was governor. Although the company did benefit from at least $7 million in state tax credits, it did not receive $9 million in loans from the state. (The error appeared in three other articles and in an editorial in 1994, all of which were corrected on April 20 of that year. The correction should have been appended then in The Times’s archives to those articles: one on the front page on March 18 about Mrs. Clinton’s commodity trades in the late 1970s; a March 19 article about President Clinton’s defense of Mrs. Clinton’s investments; a March 30 article about the White House’s disclosure of the amount Mrs. Clinton invested in commodities trades, and a March 31 editorial.)
The error in the July 5 article was discovered during research after the watchdog group Media Matters twice pointed out that the 1994 correction had not been appended to the other articles. Link

Wilde-ly misquoted

Oscar Wilde did not say, on his deathbed, "Either those curtains go or I do." He is reported to have said something along the lines of "this wallpaper will be the death of me - one of us will have to go", but not on his deathbed (Genius declared: Wilde tops the wit list, page 11, October 15). Link

Deja vu

The wrong versions of articles by two Spectator columnists appeared in Saturday's paper. Columns by Cecelia Carter Smith and Harold Howe were repeats of earlier columns. The proper columns appear in today's Sports section. The Spectator apologizes for the errors and any confusion they may have caused. Link