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"Israel Plans To Move Deeper Into Israel": Regret The Error Tracks The Print Bloopers Of 2006

Regret The Error |  Posted Friday December 15, 2006 at 04:01 AM

Journalistic correction watchdog Regret The Error compiles a giant, comprehensive, hilarious list of the best, most egregious, how-could-the-copyeditor-have-missed-this-one print errors of the year, with a special honorable mention to the U.K.'s Sun: "This site simply wouldn't be possible without you." Local fare does not escape mention, of course, including the New York Times apologizing for misspelling the department store Gimbels (not "Gimbel's" which the NYT realized it had misspelled 120 times and never corrected) and which recommended way, WAY too many chili peppers for Superbowl meatballs (though surprisingly, Alessandra Stanley sneaks by without mention). RTE editor Craig Silverman dubs this year "The Year of the Belated Apology," as exemplified by this from the Lexington-Herald-Leader:

It has come to the editor's attention that the Herald-Leader neglected to cover the civil rights movement. We regret the omission.

Just a tad more egregious than the sex poll that got its results mixed up with another poll, resulting in an 40% responding to the question "How kinky are you?" with "We both love any and all animals."

There are a multitude of other eye-popping examples, some of which are not at all funny — Silverman has a collage of newspaper covers after the Sago miners were thought to have been found alive that is just heartbreaking. But for the most part the round-up is entertaining and provides a cautionary look about there but for the Grace of God we all may go, and reminds us never to let the Sun catch us drinking, smoking, or snogging.

Crunks '06: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections [Regret The Error]