Regret the Error

We Crunked: Regret corrections

Even though we hired a copy editor for our year-end round-up, we still made two mistakes. We thank Elizabeth and Jeff for their free copy editing work.

The Crunks:

• Our December 13 post, "Crunks ’06: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections," left out "to" in this sentence about our Correction of the Year, "In fact, we give this award in an effort [to] give media everywhere..." Also, our runner up for that same award was listed as being from the "Delaware News Journal." More specifically, it is from the Wilmington, Delaware News Journal. Both have been corrected. We regret the errors.

We Crunked: Regret corrections

The Crunks have returned in all their glory. Big thanks to Charlene, S.B. and Randall for highlighting our incompetence.

• Our October 23 post originally entitled, "Kind of the point of 'exiled'," required a headline change due to inaccuracy. The correction it related was about the (low) number of visits the Dalai Lama had made to Nepal. We confused Nepal with Tibet, the country the Dalai Lama is exiled from. The headline has been changed to read, "Not a regular." We regret the error.
• Our October 26 post, "'Like two shits passing in the night'," presented that text from a Dallas Observer article as being the result of a typo. The paper later explained the writer had purposely altered the common phrase "like two ships passing in the night" in order to make a joke. Read the post for more background. We regret the error.
• Our October 30 post originally entitled, "'Didn't bother' to ask him," also had an incorrect headline. The person in question is female, not male. The headline has been corrected to read, "'Didn't bother' to ask her." We regret the error.

We Crunked: Regret corrections

Two Crunks to report this week. We offer our thanks to Joe and William for being smarter than us.

The Crunks:

• Our July 3 post, "That's Edgar Allan Poe," misspelled the word "newspapers" as "newspepers." It has been corrected. We regret the error.
• Our July 20th post, "Her name eludes them still," originally ran with the headline "Her name alludes them still." It has been corrected. We regret the error.

We Crunked: Regret corrections

The Crunks have returned. A hearty thanks to Jo, Frank and Linda for helping us keep things correct.

The Crunks:

• Our June 20 post, "A tale of two public editors" had two errors. In referring to former New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent, we mistakenly wrote, "He wasn't prefect." We of course meant, "He wasn't perfect." We also referred to current public editor Byron Calame's "bi-monthly column," which is incorrect. He writes a column every two weeks. Both errors have been corrected. We regret the errors.
• Our June 20 post, "Spelling bee errors continue," contained a misspelling in the headline. We wrote "Selling" instead of "Spelling," thus adding ourselves to the list of publications who have made errors while writing about spelling bees. It has been corrected. We regret the error.

We Crunked: Regret corrections

One post with two crunks to report this week. Enjoy our incompetence.

The Crunks:

• Our April 24 post, "The Medium Is the Massage," incorrectly stated that the title of Marshall McLuhan's well-known book was "The Medium Is the Message." While this was his famous declaration and the intended title of the book, it was not the final title. "The Medium Is the Massage" is the correct title. (Though it was the result of a typo; for background, read the post.) As a result, we incorrectly implied that New York Times Magazine writer Jaime Wolf had made a typo in an article about American Apparel owner Dov Charney. Adding insult to injury, we also misspelled Wolf's first name as "Jamie." The errors have been corrected and noted within the post. We apologize to Wolf for the wrongful typo charge.

We Crunked: Regret corrections

One Crunk to report in this edition, and it's an amusing one. Thanks to Elizabeth for pointing it out.

The Crunk:

• In our April 19 post, "Questioning the Times questionnaire," we incorrectly used the word "pubic" instead of "public" in this sentence: "The problem here is that the questionnaire is public, and the rules governing its application aren't." It has been corrected. We regret the error.

We Crunked: Regret corrections

Crunk time once again. Thanks to JF, Thomas, Bill, Bruce and Chuck for their free copy editing.

The Crunks:

• The headline on our March 24 post, "All Supreme Court Justices look alike," incorrectly used "looks" instead of "look." It has been corrected. We regret the error.
• In our March 24 post, "Sources with tall tales to tell, and why the press can't resist them," the sentence, "Every story is supposed to be humanized, to speak to..." initially left out the word "be." It has been corrected. We regret the error.
• Our sidebar, "Where Is Your Online Corrections Page," (left hand side of the site) initially spelled "Fox News" as "FOX News." It has been corrected. We regret the error.
• Our March 29 post, "Those elusive broadcast corrections," contained a few errors. The sentence, "Or one of the media watchdogs finds some fresh meat" incorrectly used "find" instead of "finds." The sentence, "But do broadcast media makes less errors than print?" initially used "does" instead of "do." And the sentence, "So while both print and broadcast make errors, news networks will usually just fix their reports for the next time..." initially used "report" instead of "reports." They have been corrected. We regret the errors.

We Crunked: Regret corrections

The Crunks have struck again, thanks to some lazy headline writing. Respect to Steve and Charlene for their eagle eyes.

The Crunks:

• In our March 17 post, "Will the real Matthew Slade please stand up?," we misspelled "Matthew" in the headline. It has been corrected. We regret the error.
• In our March 20 post, "He was, however, a hockey player," we mistakenly wrote "her" instead of "he" in the headline. It has been corrected. We regret the error.
• In our March 21 post, "All receivers sound alike," we mistakenly put a possessive apostrophe on the word "receivers" in the headline. It has been corrected. We regret the error.

We Crunked: Regret corrections

Another week, a few more Crunks. Except this time we have a Crunk that wasn't. Thanks to Doug, Patrick, Erica and Stoo for their eagle eyes.

The Crunks:

• Last week's edition of "We Crunked: Regret corrections" reported that we misspelled the word "judgment" in the headline of our February 23 post, "Unfair judgment." In fact, both "judgement" and "judgment" are acceptable. We'll stick with "judgment" from now on.
• Our February 24 post, "LA Times and song titles -- a bad combination," stated that the Times had previously misspelled two OutKast song titles in this correction. In reality, the paper misspelled three. It has been corrected. We regret the error.
• Our February 28 post, "One paper's corrections policy; readers as copy editors," mistakenly inserted the word "the" in front of Karen Vittek's name in this sentence: "This is an interesting column written by Karen Vittek, managing editor of the News Guard in Lincoln City, Oregon." It has been corrected. We regret the error.
  

We Crunked: Regret corrections

The Crunks are back. Two errors to report in this edition, and we offer thanks to J.R. and Eleanor for spotting our mistakes.

The Crunks:

• Our February 10 post, "Asian dress? Must be a kimono, says Elle magazine," misspelled Korean as "Koren" in this sentence: "Elle magazine was forced to run a correction in its December issue after referring to a traditional Korean dress as a "kimono" in its November edition, according to a South Korean newspaper." It has been corrected. We regret the error. This correction was delayed due to an editorial oversight. We apologize for the delay.
• Our February 23 post, "Unfair judgment," misspelled the word "judgment" as "judgement" in the headline. It has been corrected. We regret the error.