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The reporter apparently read Apple's press release headline in which the company claimed to have sold 300,000 iPads on the "First Day" (Saturday), or else used incorrect facts from other headlines. In fact, Apple did not sell that many last Saturday. The total (as Apple later admits in its... Read more
The story "S.F. school district, teachers at impasse," from April 14, 2010, appears differently in print and online. The print version says the San Francisco Unified School District is facing a two-year budget shortfall of $118 million. The Web version says $113 million. A correction did appear the... Read more
The article "Police chief's remarks on terrorism anger Arabs" is missing a critical piece of information — the chief's alleged remarks are not quoted anywhere in the story! The reporter paraphrases what Gascon "reportedly said" at the large meeting of city officials and business people, and... Read more
Harris's 2/17 piece "Report Cited by Obama on Hospitals is Criticized" suggests that the Dartmouth Health Atlas may be flawed in suggesting that there is no correlation between hospital costs and patient outcome. The author of the study responded in a 2/22 letter to the editor saying that... Read more
Listing for Josh Kornbluth's show "Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?" says the show is at the Jewish Community Center in SF, but actually it's at The Jewish Theater in the Theater Artaud building. There's a comment pointing out the error but it's still showing with the wrong info on the Express home... 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 [...]