by snarly | Dec 5, 2012 | Media Apologies
On Monday, the Jewish parenting blog Kveller published a piece by writer Christine Benvenuto about the strain of living in the same town as her ex. (You may be able to see it in Google’s cache, which is sort of a spoiler alert about where this is going.) The...
by sumac | Dec 5, 2012 | Media Apologies
Maybe it was the perfect quote about the shallowness of city people that brought reporter Karen Jeffrey down. She’d been quoting imaginary people in stories for years, but somehow this particular Veteran’s Day story, with a self-searching vacationer, did...
by snarly | Dec 4, 2012 | Media Apologies, Political Apologies
Newspaper “regret the error” corrections can be amusing. Sometimes they’re more than that. On July 4, 2004, The Herald-Leader newspaper in Lexington, KY ran a front-page correction: “It has come to the editor’s attention that the...
by sumac | Nov 29, 2012 | Media Apologies
On Monday, Tom Ricks, a Pulitzer-winning journalist on military matters, was invited onto Fox News. When asked his views on the possible nomination of Susan Rice as Secretary of State, his succinct predictions included the remark that the Benghazi issue had been hyped...
by sumac | Nov 22, 2012 | Media Apologies
Rupert Murdoch’s burbling again. He got a lot of flak for tweeting, “Why is Jewish-owned press so consistently anti-Israel in every crisis?” which was presumably directed at the New York Times. (Flak, plus puzzled people saying “Huh?” But see Michael Wolff...
by snarly | Nov 14, 2012 | Media Apologies, Political Apologies
Local Fox News anchor if-apologizes (“if-apology” definition: if anyone was offended/if you don’t understand my sense of humor/if my job is in jeopardy unless I backpedal in some half-assed manner, then I APOLOGIZE, OK?) for saying “Rachel...
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