MTV News Canada is giving the Washington Post a run for its money. Shortly after RegretTheError picked a Washington Post correction about rap group P...
Craig Silverman | Posted 12.16.2009 | Media
Every year at this time, I collect the best of the worst in media errors and corrections. Here's a sample of 2009's offerings.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.13.2009 | Media
The Post published an article reporting rap legends Public Enemy referred to 9/11 as "a joke," when in reality they were referring to emergency number 9-1-1. Happily, something is being done about it!
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media
ABC News White House correspondent Jake Tapper offers up, via Twitter, a Washington Post correction that addresses what Tapper terms an example of "un...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media
Spencer Ackerman is a friend of mine and a reporter whose expertise and ecumenical fairness are resources I've come to trust. He's also demonstrated ...
Liz Smith | Posted 11.10.2009 | Entertainment
I am still working for a living because I like to work and I am not rich enough to retire. Maybe that's what you find "unseemly."
Melissa Kirsch | Posted 05.25.2009 | Media
A minor blunder in the New York Times produces minor hilarity and profound self-flagellation.
Norm Stamper | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
Shooting an armed, hostage-holding assailant can be a life-saving act of heroism. But there's something fundamentally wrong with taking the life of someone in the state's custody.
Melissa Kirsch | Posted 05.14.2009 | Media
I tend to think if it's in the Times, it's true. Is this latest gaffe indicative of the breakdown of editorial process in the Age of the Blog?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics
Congratulations are in order to Mickey Kaus, who proved, through the disclosure of a single, intended-to-be-off-the-record threaded discussion from Jo...
Larry Beinhart | Posted 06.04.2008 | Media
In 2000, Bush didn't get the most votes in Florida. The news story spinners hung their hat on a technicality.
Melissa Kirsch | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media
Here we have a raft of errors that took over eight months for the Times to correct, even though the deceased's son brought the errors to the attention of the paper twice during that time.
Lecia Shorter | Posted 04.22.2008 | Home
The costs of citizen incarceration and prison spending have skyrocketed and recidivism remains high. At last, policymakers are questioning the wisdom of tough-on-crime campaign rhetoric.
CNBC | Alex Crippen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Just weeks after closing at an all-time high in mid-December, shares of Warren Buffett's holding company Berkshire Hathaway are falling deeper into 'c...
Regret The Error | Craig Silverman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Barack Obama appears to be a magnet for press errors. He was mistaken for "Osama" in two (1,2) news reports by CNN, and in one by the New York Post. ...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 12.16.2009 | Media