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"Besides, Gervais said he had heard that the Hollywood Foreign Press Agency was deciding between his returning 'or no host at all.' 'So basically, I beat no one,' he said with a laugh." The name of the org is the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. http://www.goldenglobes.org/ Read more
The caption on the picture asserts that Jose Padilla was convicted of a dirty bomb plot. The lede indicates that he is a "convicted terrorist plotter." Neither are true; he was convicted of providing material support by completing an application to go to an al Qaeda camp in 2000. Read more
Capping the lede of a piece claiming that a new climate paper undoes basic greenhouse theory is a damning quote from "one of the report's authors," Jyrki Kauppinen. The problem is he's not one of the paper's 63 authors: Jasper Kirkby, Joachim Curtius, João Almeida, Eimear Dunne,... Read more
[The Daily Beast falsely summarized the] AP story by saying: "Panetta has announced that Al Qaeda's second in command has been killed in Pakistan." But Panetta never said that. Read more
Thomas Friedman wrote: "How could Republicans become so anti-environment, just when the country is going green? Historically speaking, 'Republicans can claim as much credit for America’s environmental leadership as Democrats,' noted Glenn Prickett, senior vice president at Conservation... Read more
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New York Times to Thomas Friedman: We won’t fix your error
Recently Hal Espen, formerly the editor of Outside magazine, posted an error report on MediaBugs concerning a 2009 column by Thomas Friedman on the politics of climate change. Friedman’s apparent mistake was reporting that the first President Bush had signed the Rio Treaty in 1993 — part of an argument Friedman was promoting that, historically [...]
The case of the New York Times’ terror error
[This article, which is a collaboration between Scott Rosenberg and Mark Follman, originally appeared on the Atlantic's website. Since then it has been the subject of a MediaBugs error report filed by Frank Lindh. Yes, at MediaBugs, not only do we eat our own dogfood, we find it tasty!] It is hard to describe the [...]
Three pillars of trust: Links, revisions, and error buttons
The journalism industry ships lemons every day. Our newsrooms have a massive quality control problem. According to the best counts we have, more than half of stories contain mistakes — and only three percent of those errors are ever fixed. Errors small and large litter the mediascape, and each uncorrected error undermines public trust in [...]