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Errors & Omissions: When did extortionate bathroom taps become 'essentials'?
When did appliances and gadgets turn into "essentials"? Last Saturday's Information section carried a list of the "50 best bathroom essentials".
Inside Corrections
Claudia Adusei/Aderotimi
Thursday, 10 March 2011
On 10 February, we reported from a news agency source that Claudia Adusei, 20, from London, died after buttock enhancement treatment in Philadelphia. The agency had been misinformed that the girl was Claudia Adusei, when it was, in fact, Claudia Aderotimi who died. We apologise for any distress caused to the families concerned.
Errors & Omissions: Got carried away with words and forgot to make a clear point
Saturday, 5 March 2011
Rhetoric is all very well, but let's remember what we are actually saying. This is from a comment piece published on Thursday: "Mr Cameron has a thousand domestic policies and his Big Society as a binding theme. In relation to events in the Middle East he had neither a policy let alone the international equivalent of a Big Society."
Errors & Omissions: If you can't work out who is in which picture, the caption's not doing its job
Saturday, 26 February 2011
An essay about exorcism, published on Thursday, was illustrated by eight photographs. Four were film stills, and four were headshots of priests.
Garikoitz Ibarlucea Murua
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
On 31 July 2010 an article headlined "A tour of the jail within a jail that houses Britain's most dangerous convicts" about the High Security Unit at Belmarsh Prison wrongly suggested that Garikoitz Ibarlucea Murua was amongst those held in that unit. In fact Mr Ibarlucea was only ever remanded at Wandsworth prison as a lower security prisoner under a European Arrest Warrant; he was released on 12 August last year after a court held the warrant to be invalid, a decision upheld on appeal. The article referred to him as an alleged member of the Basque terrorist organisation, ETA, but Mr Ibarlucea has told us, which we accept, that he is not and never has been a member of ETA or involved in violence (as a form of political protest or otherwise). We apologise for our error.
Errors & Omissions: Every picture tells a story, but sometimes it's the wrong one
Saturday, 19 February 2011
On Monday, 14 February, we naturally had an article about declarations of love. John Walsh wrote about love letters. The article was illustrated with pictures of the writers Denis Diderot, John Keats, Victor Hugo and James Joyce – and what looked like a Victorian etching of a soppy-looking medieval monk, captioned thus: "St Valentine, a martyr for love."
Errors & Omissions: Take a perfectly good image, misuse it endlessly and watch it crumble
Saturday, 12 February 2011
A comment piece on Thursday, about love affairs, said: "One person only has to slip in their resolve for 10 minutes and the whole thing crumbles like a pack of cards."
Errors & Omissions: How the public's mild worry can be stretched to deep concern
Saturday, 5 February 2011
All through the great phone-hacking scandal, I have held a minority position in the office. It seems to me to be a parish-pump story from the village of Westminster and Fleet Street, much less interesting to real people than to journalists. So maybe I have missed the point of the following headline, which appeared on Tuesday: "Voters deeply concerned about phone hacking, survey reveals."
Margaret Doyle
Friday, 4 February 2011
In our article, ‘Reuters rocked by scandal over staff’s undisclosed shareholdings’ (19 October 2010) we alleged that Margaret Doyle, a financial journalist, had breached Reuters’ internal rules on share ownership and dealing. This was not true. She had observed the rules at all times, a fact confirmed by Reuters. We apologise to Ms Doyle for the embarrassment caused.
Errors & Omissions: We must treasure our language's distinctions with all our might
Saturday, 29 January 2011
English auxiliary verbs are a national treasure – but one that too few people appreciate. We need to fight for them. Consider the following sentences:
An apology: Andy Townsend
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
In yesterday’s Independent, Ian Herbert attributed quotes to the ITV football analyst Andy Townsend which suggested that he had made sexist comments on Twitter as part of the Andy Gray/Richard Keys story.
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