Or was it something else?
(I'm partial to: "An article last Sunday about the documentary maker Morgan Spurlock, who has a new film out on the boy band One Direction, misstated the subject of his 2012 movie 'Mansome.' It is about male grooming, not Charles Manson. The article also misspelled the name of the production company of Simon Cowell, on whose 'X Factor' talent competition show One Direction was created. The company is Syco, not Psycho.")
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This New York Times correction made me wonder about the reading comprehension of the editors:
Correction: November 11, 2014
An earlier version of the headline with this obituary described some of John Doar’s work incorrectly. He opposed segregation, not desegregation.
An earlier version also misstated Mr. Doar’s birth date. He was born on Dec. 3, 1921 — not Dec. 23.
Here's my favorite NYT correction:
Correction: August 16, 2008
An article on Friday about the planned construction of two large solar power installations in California described incorrectly the operation of the solar panels in one, to be built by SunPower. Its panels pivot from east to west to follow the sun over the course of a day — not west to east.
Layers and layers of "fact-checkers".
You might be right about "Mansom." Still, I can't believe that's an actual correction. You did an entire puff piece on a documentary filmmaker and can't get the subject matter correct? Perhaps they just put it in as a joke.
Long ago, there was a very entertaining George Hesselberg article in the State Journal about his campaign to get a correction done by the New York Times for a picture that ran with a story on bratwurst in Wisconsin: the picture was of summer sausage.
I do believe the correction finally ran. The story behind the correction was awesome.
May 12, 2006:
...The article also misstated the name of a service medal that a general presented to Sergeant Gomez's mother. It is a Purple Heart, not a Purple Star."
I nominate (note the dateline):
JULY 17, 1969: A Correction. On Jan. 13, 1920, "Topics of the Times," and editorial-page feature of the The New York Times, dismissed the notion that a rocket could function in vacuum and commented on the ideas of Robert H. Goddard, the rocket pioneer, as follows:
"That Professor Goddard, with his 'chair' in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react - to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
Further investigation and experimentation have confirmed the findings of Isaac Newton in the 17th Century and it is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum as well as in an atmosphere. The Times regrets the error.
The Tricia Nixon/Times correction connection:
Shortly before Tricia's wedding to Edward Finch Cox, the White House released her chef's recipe for the wedding cake, a 350-pound, six-foot-tall lemon pound cake based on a recipe of Pat Nixon's. Early editions of the Times reported that the cake would have "the initials of the President's daughter and her bridegroom, Edward Finch, decorated with blown Cox, and will be iced in sugar orchids...."
Later editions were corrected to: "...her bridegroom, Edward Finch Cox, and will be iced in white, decorated with blown sugar orchids..."
I don't think the correction was announced in the paper, but it was quite the office conversation topic for a few minutes in June, 1971.
Sources: Raymond A. Sokolov, *Steal the Menu: A Memoir of Forty Years in Food,* p. 73; and personal recollection
This is a rich category:
Correction: An earlier version of this post reported Bruce Braley as saying “A bad day is when you’re 23 years old and lose your phone.” He said “father,” not phone.
NYT 11/7/14
And not from the Times but from Slate, this was pretty yummy too:
Due to a production error, an Oct. 23 Technology misrepresented a map showing which Americans believe that burning the flag should be illegal as a map showing gay porn downloads across the country. The gay porn downloads map was missing and has been added into the article.
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